Boipeba Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Life restoration, alongside Montealtosuchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Infraorder: | Scolecophidia |
Genus: | †Boipeba Fachini, Onary, Palci, Lee, Bronzati & Hsiou, 2020 |
Species: | †B. tayasuensis
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Binomial name | |
†Boipeba tayasuensis Fachini, Onary, Palci, Lee, Bronzati & Hsiou, 2020
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Boipeba is an extinct genus of blind snake from the Late Cretaceous (post-Turonian) of Brazil. It contains a single species, Boipeba tayasuensis. The species is known from a single precloacal vertebra from the Adamantina Formation of northwestern São Paulo.[1]