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Gigantophis
Dari Wikipedia, ensiklopedia bebas

Gigantophis garstini adalah seekor ular raksasa prasejarah kemungkinan berukuran  lebih dari 10 meter (33 kaki),    terbesar sebelum Titanoboa, yang ditemukan di Kolombia pada tahun 2009. Gigantophis hidup sekitar 40 juta tahun yang lalu di Sahara selatan di mana Mesir  dan Aljazair kini berada.



penemuan
Spesies ini hanya diketahui dari sejumlah kecil fosil, dan mungkin pemangsa Proboscideans basal, nenek moyang babi berukuran gajah modern.

jenis
Gigantophis diklasifikasikan sebagai anggota keluarga madtsoiid.

ukuran
Jason Head, dari Smithsonian Institution di Washington, DC, telah membandingkan tulang fosil dari Gigantophis dengan  ular modern yang terbesar, dan menyimpulkan bahwa ular punah ini bisa tumbuh hingga 9,3 meter (31 kaki) hingga 10,7 meter (35 kaki) panjangnya.
 


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Gigantophis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gigantophis garstini was a giant prehistoric snake which may have measured more than 10 metres (33 ft),[3] larger than any living species of snake. It once took the mantle of largest snake before Titanoboa, which was discovered in Colombia in 2009. Gigantophis lived approximately 40 million years ago in the southern Sahara where Egypt[3] and Algeria are now situated.


Discovery

The species is known only from a small number of fossils, and may have preyed on basal proboscideans, pig-sized ancestors of modern elephants.

Species

Gigantophis is classified as a member of the madtsoiid family.

Size

Jason Head, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has compared the fossil vertebrae of a Gigantophis to those of the largest modern snakes, and concluded that the extinct snake could grow to 9.3 metres (31 ft) to 10.7 metres (35 ft) in length. If 10.7 metres (35 ft), it would have been more than 10 percent longer than its largest living relatives.