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Rukwanyoka

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Rukwanyoka
Temporal range: Oligocene
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Rukwanyoka
McCartney et al., 2014
Species:
R. holmani
Binomial name
Rukwanyoka holmani
McCartney et al., 2014

Rukwanyoka is an extinct genus of boine that inhabited Africa during the Oligocene epoch.

Taxonomy

Rukwanyoka is known from a single species, Rukwanyoka holmani, whose vertebral morphology indicates it was a member of the subfamily Boinae.[1]

References

  1. ^ McCartney, Jacob A.; Stevens, Nancy J.; O’Connor, Patrick M. (19 March 2014). Butler, Richard J. (ed.). "The Earliest Colubroid-Dominated Snake Fauna from Africa: Perspectives from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Southwestern Tanzania". PLoS ONE. 9 (3): e90415. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...990415M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090415. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3960104. PMID 24646522.


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