Nagini mazonense

Nagini (from Sanskrit Nāgá, "snake") is an extinct genus of recumbirostran tetrapods from the middle Carboniferous of the Mazon Creek fossil beds, Illinois, United States. The type and only species, Nagini mazonense, was named by Arjan Mann and colleagues in 2022 from two specimens, both of which preserve soft tissue like other fossils from Mazon Creek: MPM VP359229.2 and FMNH PR 1031. It is a member of the Molgophidae, a lineage of amniote-like tetrapods which exhibited a pattern of body elongation and digit reduction on the limbs. Nagini is the first member of the group that shows the complete loss of the forelimbs and pectoral girdle, but it still has intact hindlimbs; this mirrors the pattern seen in the evolution of snakes, and suggests that molgophids underwent a similar mechanism of limb reduction beginning with the failure to form distinct forelimbs.[1]

This article is about the extinct animal. For other uses, see Nagini.

Nagini mazonense
Temporal range: Moscovian,
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: †Recumbirostra
Order: †Lysorophia
Family: †Molgophidae
Genus: †Nagini
Mann et al., 2022
Species:
†N. mazonense
Binomial name
†Nagini mazonense
Mann et al., 2022

References
  1. Mann, A.; Pardo, J.D.; Maddin, H.C. (2022). "Snake-like limb loss in a Carboniferous amniote". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 46. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01698-y. PMID 35347258. S2CID 247778148.


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