Titanoboa
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Titanoboa is a genus of extinct giant boid snake that lived during the middle and late Paleocene epoch. Titanoboa was first discovered in the early 2000s by members of the Smithsonian Tropical Researc
Titanoboa paratype precloacal vertebra UF IGM 2 edited with scale bar
Example of a coal mine in Cerrejón in Colombia, where Titanoboa was found
Life restoration of Titanoboa
The relative size of Titanoboa compared to the modern human, Vasuki, Palaeophis, Gigantophis, the reticulated python, and green anaconda
Gigantophis
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Gigantophis is an extinct genus of giant snake containing a single species, G. garstini. Before the Paleocene constrictor genus Titanoboa was described from Colombia in 2009, G. garstini was regarded
Titanoboa
…m (47 ft) long, and weigh around 730 to 1,135 kg (1,610 to 2,500 lb). The discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonensis supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis garstini, which is known from the Eocene of Egypt. Titanoboa evolved following the extinction of all nonavian dinosaurs, being one of the largest reptiles that…
Gigantophis UMMNH
Boavus idelmani Holotype AMNH