Nidophis
| Nidophis Temporal range:
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| Nidophis insularis vertebrae (scale bar 1 mm) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Madtsoiidae |
| Genus: | †Nidophis |
| Species: | †N. insularis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Nidophis insularis Vasile et al., 2013
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Nidophis is an extinct genus of madtsoiid snake that inhabited on Hațeg island in what is now Romania. The type and only known species of the genus is N. insularis. The holotype was closely associated with the dinosaur egg nest, though it may not have been a nest raider. Instead, the small size of Nidophis would have allowed it to eat amphibians, lizards, multituberculates or squamate eggs. Nidophis was probably preyed upon or scavenged by a theropod dinosaur or a crocodylomorph, based on bite marks found on its bones.