pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys. 3. enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory (opposed to eternal). 4. Grammar. of, relating to, or expressing time: a temporal adjective, such as recent, or a temporal adverb, such as recently. of or relating to the tenses of a verb.
The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest, longest, and heaviest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis.
The largest known prehistoric snake is Titanoboa, estimated at 13â15 metres (43â49 ft) in length and 1135 kgâ1819 kg in weight. Another large fossil snake is Gigantophis, estimated at around 11 metres (36 ft) in length. Both these snakes lived in tropical rain forests.