Messelopython

{{Short description|Genus of reptiles (fossil)}}

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| fossil_range = Lutetian

| image = Messelopython Grube Messel 2022-09-06.jpg

| taxon = Messelopython

| authority = Zaher and Smith, 2020

}}

Messelopython is an extinct genus of pythonoid that lived in Germany during the Lutetian.{{Cite journal |last1=Zaher |first1=Hussam |last2=Smith |first2=Krister T. |date=December 2020 |title=Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas |journal=Biology Letters |language=en |volume=16 |issue=12 |pages=20200735 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2020.0735 |issn=1744-9561 |pmc=7775975 |pmid=33321065 }}