Pouitella is an extinct genus of terrestrial ophidian known from the Cenomanian of Brézé and Lussant, FranceG. Cuny, J.-J. Jaeger, M. Mahboubi, J.-C. Rage. (1990). Les plus anciens serpents (Reptilia, Squamata) connus. Mise au point sur l’âge géologique des serpents de la partie moyenne du Crétacé C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sér. II, 311, pp. 1267-1272 and was first described by J-C. Rage in 1988.Rage, J-C. (1988). A primitive snake in the Cenomanian. [in French] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sér. II. 307, 1027-1032 Only the type species, P. pervetus is known and the holotype (Univ. Paris-VI, no. BRZ 1) consists only of middle trunk vertebrae.
Pouitella was probably the sister taxon of the slightly older Lapparentophis from the ?Albian-Cenomanian of Algeria, Morocco and Sudan. Pouitella was initially believed to have been a snake, but later studies have found it to fall under Ophidia, the clade which Serpentes also belongs to. References