A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous period of North America

Nicholas R. Longrich (), Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar and Jacques A. Gauthier
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Nicholas R. Longrich: Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109, USA
Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar: Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University
Jacques A. Gauthier: Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7410, 205-208

Abstract: Previously undescribed material from the maxilla, dentary and spine of the Cretaceous Coniophis precedens shows that it is the most primitive known snake.

Date: 2012
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