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'''''Python europaeus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[Python (genus)|python]] species. It lived during the early/middle [[miocene]]. The [[holotype]] is a single trunk [[vertebra]] found in France.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Schleip W. |author2=O'Shea M. |year=2010 |title=Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution |journal=ZooKeys |issue=66 |pages=29–79 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.66.683 |pmid=21594030 |pmc=3088416|doi-access=free |bibcode=2010ZooK...66...29S }}</ref>
==Discovery and naming==
Fossilized remains of ''Python europaeus'' were first reported in 1958 by French herpetologist [[Robert Hoffstetter]], decades before the species was named, who published that python fossils had been found in the localities of [[Pontlevoy]], [[La Grive-Saint-Alban]] and Mont Ceindre (now known as Vieux Collonges) in [[France]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoffstetter |first=Robert |date=1958 |title=Les Squamates (Sauriens et Serpents) du Miocène français |url=https://eurekamag.com/research/022/946/022946851.php |journal=Compte Rendu du 83e Congrès des Sociétés savantes de Paris et des Départements |volume=83 |pages=195–200}}</ref> The material from Vieux Collonges would be mentioned in later works published in during the 1970s and 1980s, which refer to the material as an unnamed species of ''[[Python (genus)|Python]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |
In 2003, a study reanalysed the python fossils first reported by Hoffstetter and determined that they represent a new species, distinguished from others by its lower [[neural spines]]. This species was given the name ''Python europaeus'', the [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] referring to [[Europe]], the continent from which its remains originate. A single trunk vertebra from Vieux Collonges ([[MNHN]], VCO 29) was designated as the [[holotype]] specimen of this species, with an additional 379 vertebrae and one palatine bone being referred to it. The referred material originates from Vieux Collonges and La Grive-Saint-Alban, however no python remains could be traced from Pontlevoy, leading the authors to suggest that the supposed python fossils from Pontlevoy reported by Hoffstetter are actually remains of ''[[Botrophis gaudryi]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |
==References==
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