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Eunectes stirtoni

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Eunectes stirtoni
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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E. stirtoni
Binomial name
Eunectes stirtoni
Hoffstetter and Rage, 1977[1]

Eunectes stirtoni is an extinct species of anaconda that lived in La Venta, Colombia, during the Miocene. The validity of this species has been called into question.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hoffstetter, R.; J. C. Rage (1977). "Le gisement de vertébrés miocènes de La Venta (Colombie) et sa faune de serpents". Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés). 63: 161–190.
  2. ^ Hsiou, Annie S.; Albino, Adriana M. (2009). "Presence of the genus Eunectes (Serpentes, Boidae) in the Neogene of Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil". Journal of Herpetology. 43 (4): 612–619. doi:10.1670/08-295.1.