Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Based on comparison between the undistorted Titanoboa vertebrae and the skeleton of modern boas, Head and colleagues found that the analyzed specimens fit a position towards the later half of the precloacal vertebral column, approximately 60 to 65% back from the first two neck vertebrae. Using this method, initial size estimates proposed a ...
Unlike other large-bodied snakes like Titanoboa, [4] Vasuki was probably not an aquatic animal. Its vertebral morphology instead suggests a terrestrial (or possibly semi-aquatic) lifestyle when compared to related madtsoiids and modern pythonoids. The Vasuki fossils were deposited in a backswamp marsh.
The Lapitiguana is the largest iguana fossils. The extant members of genus Brachylophus are iguanas small and medium-sized, growing a length of 60–75 cm (24–30 in). ). Although, in the past there was a much larger member of this family – Brachylophus gibbonsi, reached in length of 1.2 m (3.9 ft), [citation needed] and thus, was 1.8 times longer than its modern re
Cerrejonisuchus may have been a food source for Titanoboa, which would have lived in the same brackish water environment. [2] The vertebrate paleofauna of the Cerrejón Formation was similar to modern neotropical riverine vertebrate faunas. [5] During the Paleocene, river systems would have incised a coastal plain covered by a wet neotropical ...
• Titanoboa cerrejonensis is an extinct boid only known from large vertebrae and skull material, but size estimates suggest it is one of the largest snakes known. In 2009, Jason Head and colleagues estimated it at ~12.8 metres (42 ft) (+/-2.18 m) by regression analysis that compared vertebral width against body lengths for extant boine snakes.
Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.
Description of the anatomy of the postcranial skeleton of Paludidraco multidentatus is published by Cabezuelo-Hernández et al. (2024). [ 70 ] New fossil material of plesiosaurs, including the first reliably identified early Pliensbachian pliosaurid reported to date, is described from Pliensbachian strata from Werther and Bielefeld-Sudbrack ...
Quetzalcoatlus (/ k ɛ t s əl k oʊ ˈ æ t l ə s /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America. The first specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, consists of several wing fragments.