F. Barahona et al., The first record of snakes on the Canary Islands: a vertebra from the Upper Miocene of Lanzarote, AMPHIB-REPT, 19(4), 1998, pp. 419-425
The Upper Miocene fossil site of Orzola in Lanzarote (Canary islands) has p
roduced an isolated snake vertebra attributable to the Boidae. This is the
first report of a snake, either fossil or living, from these islands, which
provides further evidence of a greater faunal diversity in the past.