Pouitella Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | † Lapparentophiidae |
Genus: | †
Pouitella Rage, 1988 |
Species: | †P. pervetus
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Binomial name | |
†Pouitella pervetus Rage, 1988
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Pouitella is an extinct genus of terrestrial ophidian known from the Cenomanian of Brézé and Lussant, France [1] and was first described by J-C. Rage in 1988. [2] Only the type species, P. pervetus is known and the holotype ( Univ. Paris-VI, no. BRZ 1) consists only of middle trunk vertebrae.
Pouitella was probably the sister taxon of the slightly older Lapparentophis from the ? Albian- Cenomanian of Algeria, Morocco and Sudan. [3] Pouitella was initially believed to have been a snake, but later studies have found it to fall under Ophidia, [3] the clade which Serpentes also belongs to.
Pouitella Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | † Lapparentophiidae |
Genus: | †
Pouitella Rage, 1988 |
Species: | †P. pervetus
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Binomial name | |
†Pouitella pervetus Rage, 1988
|
Pouitella is an extinct genus of terrestrial ophidian known from the Cenomanian of Brézé and Lussant, France [1] and was first described by J-C. Rage in 1988. [2] Only the type species, P. pervetus is known and the holotype ( Univ. Paris-VI, no. BRZ 1) consists only of middle trunk vertebrae.
Pouitella was probably the sister taxon of the slightly older Lapparentophis from the ? Albian- Cenomanian of Algeria, Morocco and Sudan. [3] Pouitella was initially believed to have been a snake, but later studies have found it to fall under Ophidia, [3] the clade which Serpentes also belongs to.