Pachyrhachis

Taxobox
name = "Pachyrhachis"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
subclassis = Diapsida
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Pachyophiidae
genus = "Pachyrhachis"
species = "P. problematicus"
binomial = "Pachyrhachis problematicus"

"Pachyrhachis" is an extinct genus of snake with legs. It one of three genera of Cenomanian snakes with hindlimbs. Many of today's modern pythons and boas still have small bone spurs, where limbs would have been millions of years ago. These snakes would have only been about 1 m (3-4 ft) long.

ee also

Other known fossil snakes with legs:
*"Eupodophis"
*"Haasiophis"

External links

* [http://www.tylertornado.com/pachyrhachis_snake.jpgPicture]
* [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2003_A01_JCR-FE/index_uk.html The Cenomanian: stage of hindlimbed snakes]