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Boavus brevis
Taxonomy
Boavus brevis was named by Marsh (1871). Its type specimen is PMNH 468, a set of vertebrae (single thoracic vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Grizzly Buttes, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1871 | Boavus brevis Marsh |
| 1902 | Boavus brevis Hay p. 479 |
| 1930 | Boavus brevis Hay p. 268 |
| 1984 | Boavus brevis Rage p. 15 |
| 2021 | Boavus brevis Onary et al. |
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†Boavus brevis Marsh 1871
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. Onary et al. 2021 | Relatively small snake (~1.2 m,fide Marsh1871) distinguished from all other ophidians in possessing the following unique combination of vertebral features: small vertebral size (centrum length not exceeding 10 mm); absence of prezygapophyseal accessory processes; dorsoventrally low and short neuralspine that arises from the middle of the neural archextending longitudinally to the posterodorsal notch; dis-tinct median lobe between zygosphene articular facets;posterior trunk vertebrae with deep paralymphatic fossaeand paradiapophyses in anterior view extending laterally to the same level as the prezygapophyseal articular facet’s tip. |