Blocks preserving fossils of Sanajeh indicus and sauropod hatchlings
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Family:
†Madtsoiidae
Genus:
†Sanajeh Wilson et al., 2010
Species:
†S. indicus
Binomial name
†Sanajeh indicus
Wilson et al., 2010
Sanajeh (meaning "ancient gape" in Sanskrit)[1] is a genus of late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from western India. A fossil described in 2010 from the Lameta Formation was found coiled around an egg and an adjacent skeleton of a 50 cm (19 in) long sauropod dinosaur hatchling. This suggests that the snake preyed on hatchling sauropods at nesting sites.[2]
^Yong, Ed (2010). "Sanajeh, the snake that ate baby dinosaurs".
^Wilson, J.A.; Mohabey, D.M.; Peters, S.E.; Head, J.J. (2010). Benton, Michael J. (ed.). "Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India". PLOS Biology. 8 (3): e1000322. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000322. PMC 2830453. PMID 20209142.
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leptodactylids, pelobatids and discoglossids, as are madtsoiid snakes like Sanajeh and possibly Indophis and iguanian lizards, while anguids are from Laurasia...
be an ancient feeding strategy. A fossil of the Late Cretaceous snake Sanajeh of western India, found coiled around an egg and a hatchling sauropod dinosaur...
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