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Titanoboa (/ ˌ t aɪ t ə n ə ˈ b oʊ ə /; lit. ' titanic boa ') is an extinct genus of giant boid (the family that includes all boas and anacondas) snake that lived during the middle and late Paleocene.
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the K–T extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2] [3] approximately 66 million years ago.
Gigantophis is an extinct genus represented by its sole member Gigantophis garstini, a giant snake. [3] Before the Paleocene constrictor genus Titanoboa was described from Colombia in 2009, Gigantophis garstini was regarded as the largest snake ever recorded.
Only small squamates are known from the early Paleocene—the largest snake Helagras was 950 mm (37 in) in length [167] —but the late Paleocene snake Titanoboa grew to over 13 m (43 ft) long, the longest snake ever recorded. [168]
The amount of dust strangling the atmosphere is thought to have been about 2,000 gigatonnes; more than 11 times the weight of Mount Everest. Researchers ran simulations on sediment found at a ...
Titanoboa and Vasuki, two of the world's largest known fossil snakes; Gigantophis, a previous record-holder for the world's largest fossil snake; References
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