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Fig. 10

From: An assemblage of giant aquatic snakes (Serpentes, Palaeophiidae) from the Eocene of Togo

Fig. 10

Type specimens of all named African species of Palaeophis: a–e holotype trunk vertebra (NHMUK PV R 4964) of Palaeophis africanus from the middle Eocene of Oshosun Formation, Nigeria, in anterior (a), posterior (b), dorsal (c), ventral (d), and left lateral (e) views; f–j holotype trunk vertebra (MNHN.F. TGE615) of Palaeophis colossaeus from the early–middle Eocene of the Tamaguélelt Formation, Mali, in anterior (f), posterior (g), dorsal (h), ventral (i), and right lateral (j) views; k–o holotype trunk vertebra (MNHN.F. APH5) of Palaeophis maghrebianus from the early Eocene of the phosphates of Djemaïa, Oulad Abdoun, Morocco, in anterior (k), posterior (l), dorsal (m), ventral (n), and left lateral (o) views. From the collections of the Natural History Museum, London and the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris

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