Rukwanyoka
Appearance
Rukwanyoka Temporal range:
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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
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Binomial name | |
†Rukwanyoka holmani McCartney et al., 2014
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Rukwanyoka is an extinct genus of boine that inhabited Africa during the Oligocene epoch.
Taxonomy
[edit]Rukwanyoka is known from a single species, Rukwanyoka holmani, whose vertebral morphology indicates it was a member of the subfamily Boinae.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.