Najash
Najash is an extinct genus of basal snake from the Late Cretaceous Candeleros Formation of Patagonia. Like a number of other Cretaceous and living snakes it retained hindlimbs, but Najash is unusual in having well-developed legs that extend outside the rib cage, and a pelvis connected to the spine.
| Najash Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Sacral region of the holotype of the “legged snake” Najash rionegrina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Ophidia |
| Genus: | †Najash Apesteguía & Zaher, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| Najash rionegrina Apesteguía & Zaher, 2006 | |
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