Paraplacosauriops (near Placosauriops) is an extinct genus of anguid lizards from the middle Eocene of France.
Taxonomy Paraplacosauriops was originally named Plestiodon quercyi by Filhol (1882) on the basis of dentary remains from fissure fill deposits in Quercy, France.Filhol, H. 1882. Description d'un genre nouveau de Reptile fossile et note sur une espèce de Reptile fossile du genre Plestiodon. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 6: 127. Hoffstetter (1944) referred P. quercyi to the glyptosaurine genus Placosaurus, which is likewise endemic to Europe.Hoffstetter, R. 1944. Sur les Scincidae fossiles. 1. Formes Européennes et Nord-Américaines. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 16: 547–553. However, Auge and Sullivan (2006) recognized quercyi as belonging to the tribe Melanosaurini and not a Placosaurus-like glyptosaurin, so they erected Paraplacosauriops for P. quercyi.R. M. Sullivan and M. Augé. 2006. Redescription of the holotype of Placosaurus rugosus gervais 1848–1852 (Squamata, Anguidae, Glyptosaurinae) from the Eocene of France and a revision of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):127-132
Description Distinguishing features of Paraplacosauriops include a distinguishing heterodont dentition, especially the anterior teeth being extremely slender, pointed and not peg-like.
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