Incongruelaps

Incongruelaps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Genus: Incongruelaps
Species: I. iteratus
Binomial name
Incongruelaps iteratus
(Scanlon J, Lee M, Archer M 2002)

Incongruelaps is a genus of elapid snake from the Encore site of Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Property. The holotype (QM F42691) is a Late Miocene approximately 10 million years old, mid trunk vertebrae. Other disarticulated vertebrae, right maxilla and a fragment of the left dentary are presumed to be a single individual based on size comparisons, but a chance accumulation of fragment of different unassociated individuals can not be ruled out.

References

Scanlon J,Lee M, Archer M, 2002, Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation, Geobios 36 (2003) 573–601

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