Eunectes stirtoni

{{Short description|Extinct species of snake}}

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| fossil_range = Mid Miocene (Laventan)
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| genus = Eunectes

| species = stirtoni

| authority = Hoffstetter & Rage 1977{{cite journal|last1=Hoffstetter, R.|last2=J. C. Rage |year=1977 |title=Le gisement de vertébrés miocènes de La Venta (Colombie) et sa faune de serpents |journal=Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés) |language=French |volume=63 |pages=161–190}}

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Eunectes stirtoni is an extinct species of anaconda that lived during the Middle Miocene (Laventan) in the area of the present-day Tatacoa Desert. Fossils of the species have been found in the Honda Group at La Venta, Colombia. The validity of this species has been called into question.

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{{cite journal|last1=Hsiou|first1=Annie S.|last2=Albino|first2=Adriana M. |year=2009 |title=Presence of the genus Eunectes (Serpentes, Boidae) in the Neogene of Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil |journal=Journal of Herpetology |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=612–619 |doi=10.1670/08-295.1|s2cid=55097666 }}

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stirton

Category:Miocene reptiles of South America

Category:Laventan

Category:Neogene Colombia

Category:Fossils of Colombia

Category:Honda Group, Colombia

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1977

Category:Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter

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