Gigantophis
Extinct genus of snakes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. It lived about 40 million years ago during the Eocene epoch of the Paleogene Period, in the Paratethys Sea, within the northern Sahara, where Egypt[4] and Algeria are now located.
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Gigantophis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | †Madtsoiidae |
Genus: | †Gigantophis |
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Binomial name | |
†Gigantophis garstini[1] C. W. Andrews, 1901[2] | |
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