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Extinct genus of snakes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eoconstrictor is an extinct genus of booid snake, which supposedly had infrared vision, from the Eocene of Germany (Messel Pit). The type species, E. fischeri is known from multiple well-preserved specimens found in the Messel Pit of Germany. It was originally named as Palaeopython fischeri by Stephan Schaal in 2004,[1] but examination of the genus showed that it represented a distinct lineage; it was renamed as the new genus Eoconstrictor in 2020.[2] In a subsequent study Georgalis, Rabi & Smith (2021) reinterpreted "Paleryx" spinifer from the Eocene Geiseltal Lagerstätte (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) as the second species belonging to the genus Eoconstrictor.[3] Palci et al. (2023) named the third species belonging to this genus, E. barnesi described on the basis of fossils from the Geiseltal Lagerstätte.[4]
Eoconstrictor Temporal range: Eocene, | |
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Fossil of E. fisheri | |
Fossil of E. cf. fischeri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Genus: | †Eoconstrictor Scanferla & Smith, 2020 |
Species: | †E. fischeri |
Binomial name | |
†Eoconstrictor fischeri Scanferla & Smith, 2020 | |
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