Species: ragei GOMEZ, GARBEROGLIO & ROUGIER, 2019
Etymology: In honor of Jean-Claude Rage for his outstanding work on fossil snakes.
Holotype: MPEF-PV 2378
Locality: El Uruguayo fossil site, southeastern slopes of the Somun Cura Massif, Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina.
Horizon: Second facies association, La Colonia Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Uppermost Senonian Subepoch, Uppermost Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous-Danian Stage, early Paleocene Epoch, Early Paleogene Peroid, Early Tertiary Sub-era, Early Cenozoic Era.
Material: Isolated middle precloacal vertebra.
Referred material:
Locality: El Uruguayo fossil site or a nearby loaclity north of El Buitre Hill, southeastern slopes of the Somun Cura Massif, Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina.
Horizon: Second facies association, La Colonia Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Uppermost Senonian Subepoch, Uppermost Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous-Danian Stage, early Paleocene Epoch, Early Paleogene Peroid, Early Tertiary Sub-era, Early Cenozoic Era.
Material:
MPEF-PV 641, 2379-2387: Several isolated precloacal vertebrae.
Tentatively referred specimens:
MPEF-PV 644-649, 2388-2389: Fragmentary precloacal vertebrae and fragments of vertebrae.