The Lower Miocene of the Sperrgebiet (southwestern Namibia) has produced squamate reptiles. The fossils come from four localities: Grillental area, Langental, Elisabethfeld, and E-Bay. Lizards are represented by a gekkonid and an amphisbaenian that are both indeterminate, and two indeterminate lacertilians. Snakes are more diverse; they include one scolecophidian, two boids (cf. Python sp. A and cf. Python sp. B), two colubrids (one natricine and one 'colubrine'), one viperid (either one Vipera of the oriental complex or Daboia), and one indeterminate colubroid (either a colubrid or a viperid). The early Miocene might have been an important period for the diversification of pythonine boids in Africa. The composition of these faunas appears to be less advanced than the Arrisdrift assemblage that is slightly younger.