Micronatrix juliescottae Parmley and Hunter 2010 (colubrid snake)

Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae

Full reference: D. Parmley and K. B. Hunter. 2010. Fossil snakes of the Clarendonian (late Miocene) Pratt Slide local fauna of Nebraska, with the description of a new natricine colubrid. Journal of Herpetology 44(4):526-543

Belongs to Micronatrix according to D. Parmley and K. B. Hunter 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UNSM 100260, a set of vertebrae (anterior trunk vertebra). Its type locality is Pratt Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian channel siliciclastic in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pratt Quarry

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