Sanajeh
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Sanajeh (meaning "ancient gape" in Sanskrit)[1] is a genus of late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from western India. A fossil described in 2010 from the Lameta Formation was found coiled around an egg and an adjacent skeleton of a 50 cm (19 in) long sauropod dinosaur hatchling. This suggests that the snake preyed on hatchling sauropods at nesting sites.[2]
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Sanajeh | |
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Blocks preserving fossils of Sanajeh indicus and sauropod hatchlings | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | †Madtsoiidae |
Genus: | †Sanajeh Wilson et al., 2010 |
Species: | †S. indicus |
Binomial name | |
†Sanajeh indicus Wilson et al., 2010 | |
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