†Liasis dubudingala Scanlon and Mackness 2002 (python)
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Reptilia - Squamata - Pythonidae
Full reference: J. D. Scanlon and B.S. Mackness. 2002. A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of Northeastern Queensland. Alcheringa 25:425-437
Belongs to Liasis according to J. D. Scanlon and B.S. Mackness 2002
Sister taxon: Liasis olivacea
Type specimen: QMF 9132, a set of vertebrae (a single mid-trunk vertebra). Its type locality is Bluff Downs station, Main Quarry, which is in a Zanclean fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Allingham Formation of Australia.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Australia (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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