Pouitella
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Pouitella is an extinct genus of terrestrial ophidian known from the Cenomanian of Brézé and Lussant, France[1] and was first described by J-C. Rage in 1988.[2] Only the type species, P. pervetus is known and the holotype (Univ. Paris-VI, no. BRZ 1) consists only of middle trunk vertebrae.
| Pouitella Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Lapparentophiidae |
| Genus: | †Pouitella Rage, 1988 |
| Species: | †P. pervetus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pouitella pervetus Rage, 1988 | |
Pouitella was probably the sister taxon of the slightly older Lapparentophis from the ?Albian-Cenomanian of Algeria, Morocco and Sudan.[3] Pouitella was initially believed to have been a snake, but later studies have found it to fall under Ophidia,[3] the clade which Serpentes also belongs to.