Sanajeh
| Sanajeh Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
| Blocks preserving fossils of Sanajeh indicus and sauropod hatchlings | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Madtsoiidae |
| Genus: | †Sanajeh Wilson et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †S. indicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sanajeh indicus Wilson et al., 2010 | |
Sanajeh (meaning "ancient gape" in Sanskrit) is a genus of late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from western India. A fossil described in 2010 from the Lameta Formation was found coiled around an egg and an adjacent skeleton of a 50 cm (19 in) long sauropod dinosaur hatchling. This suggests that the snake preyed on hatchling sauropods at nesting sites.