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specimen of this species, with an additional 379 vertebrae and one palatine bone being referred to it. The referred material originates from Vieux
Collonges and La Grive-Saint-Alban, however no python remains could be traced from Pontlevoy, leading the authors to suggest that the supposed python
305:, was illustrated and redescribed in detail by Martin Ivanov, though he believed the incompleteness of the skull made it impossible to identify this material to the species level, and identified it only as a member of the genus
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In 2003, a study reanalysed the python fossils first reported by
Hoffstetter and determined that they represent a new species, distinguished from others by its lower
291:. The material from Vieux Collonges would be mentioned in later works published in during the 1970s and 1980s, which refer to the material as an unnamed species of
538:"Snakes of the lower/middle Miocene transition at Vieux Collonges (RhĂ´ne, France), with comments on the colonisation of western Europe by colubroids"
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362:"Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution"
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Demarcq, Gerard; Ballesio, Rolland; Rage, Jean-Claude; Guerin, Claude; Mein, Pierre; Meon, Henriette (1983-07-01).
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