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Procerophis sahnii
Taxonomy
Procerophis sahnii was named by Rage et al. (2008). Its type specimen is VAS 1014, a set of vertebrae, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vastan Lignite Mine, which is in a Ypresian lagoonal siltstone/claystone in the Cambay Shale Formation of India. It is the type species of Procerophis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2008 | Procerophis sahnii Rage et al. p. 397 figs. Fig. 4 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Procerophis sahnii Rage et al. 2008
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J.-C. Rage et al. 2008 | "Differs from all other snakes, except Nigerophis, in having prezygapophyseal buttresses compressed, forming a vertical ridge, prolonged by anteriorly oriented prezygapophyseal processes. Differs from Nigerophis in having very lightly built vertebrae, a wide and thin zygosphene, a blade−like and long neural spine, well−marked subcentral ridges, and paracotylar foramina (irregularly occurring)." (Rage et al., 2008: 397). |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||