Pachyrhachis
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pachyrhachis-169-3718871
title:
Pachyrhachis
text:
Pachyrhachis is an extinct genus of snake with well developed hind legs known from fossils discovered in Ein Yabrud, near Ramallah, in the central West Bank. It is a relatively small snake, measuring more than 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long at maximum. Pachyrhachis appears to have been an ancient marine snake; the fossils occur in a marine limestone deposit, and the thickened bone of the ribs and vertebrae would have functioned as ballast to decrease the buoyancy of the animal, allowing it to dive ben
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of snakes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachyrhachis
date created:
2006-04-20T22:44:45Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T05:34:28Z
main entity:
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image:
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13
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