Alamitophis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Madtsoiidae |
| Genus: | †Alamitophis Albino 1986 |
| Type species | |
| Alamitophis argentinus Albino 1986
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Alamitophis is a genus of fossil snakes in the extinct family of Madtsoiidae. Its length is estimated at 80 centimetres (2.6 ft) and it probably fed on frogs, lizards, and small mammals. It is found in Australia (Tingamarra Fauna, after which A. tingamarra is named) and Argentina (Allen, La Colonia and Los Alamitos Formations, after which the genus is named).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Alamitophis at Fossilworks.org
Fossil snakes | |
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| Genera with hindlimbs and a sacrum | |
| Simoliophiidae | |
| Madtsoiidae | |
| Dinilysiidae | |
| Boidae | |
| Pythonidae | |
| Palaeophiidae | |
| Viperidae | |
| Elapidae | |
| Psammophiidae | |
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Categories:
- Cretaceous snakes
- Eocene snakes
- Maastrichtian genus first appearances
- Ypresian extinctions
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Paleogene reptiles of Australia
- Fossils of Australia
- Late Cretaceous reptiles of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Los Alamitos Formation
- Allen Formation
- Cañadón Asfalto Basin
- Fossil taxa described in 1986
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