Boavus idelmani Gilmore 1938 (snake)

Reptilia - Squamata

Per Onary et al . 2021 [ref 83805] the type specimen cannot be located and plaster cast of type specimen is AMNH 3850

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96

Belongs to Boavus according to J.-C. Rage 1984

See also Holman 1977

Sister taxa: Boavus brevis, Boavus occidentalis

Type specimen: Private specimen of E. S. Weinberg, a skeleton (nearly complete articulated skeleton). Its type locality is Near Fossil, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Near Fossil

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