Morelia antiqua (Smith & Plane, 1985)

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 45

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DAE2664B-DFD8-B753-C916-ECA1AAA9359C

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scientific name

Morelia antiqua (Smith & Plane, 1985)
status

[synonym of Morelia riversleighensis, extinct species]

Morelia antiqua (Smith & Plane, 1985) [synonym of Morelia riversleighensis, extinct species]

Synonyms:

Morelia antiquus Smith & Plane, 1985 - Smith and Plane 1985

Morelia antiqua - Scanlon 1992 (antiquus amended for gender by Scanlon 1992)

Liasis olivacea Gray, 1842 - Kluge 1993

Holotype:

Commonwealth Paleontological Collection 25077 (not “20577”; see Scanlon 2001), right dentary.

Type locality:

Camfield Beds, Blast Site, Bullock Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Late middle Miocene ( Scanlon 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Pythonidae

Genus

Morelia