Eunectes stirtoni
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Eunectes stirtoni Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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†Eunectes stirtoni Hoffstetter and Rage, 1977[1]
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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.