Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Synonym: Leiodon haumuriensis Hector 1874
Full reference: S. P. Welles and D. R. Gregg. 1971. Late Cretaceous marine reptiles of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 9(1):1-111
Belongs to Mosasaurus according to D. A. Driscoll et al. 2019
See also Fordyce 1991, Hector 1874 and Welles and Gregg 1971
Sister taxa: Mosasaurus beaugei, Mosasaurus caroliniensis, Mosasaurus conodon, Mosasaurus couperi, Mosasaurus dekayi, Mosasaurus depressus, Mosasaurus flemingi, Mosasaurus gaudryi, Mosasaurus gracilis, Mosasaurus grosjeani, Mosasaurus hobetsuensis, Mosasaurus hoffmannii, Mosasaurus horridus, Mosasaurus impar, Mosasaurus ivoensis, Mosasaurus lemonnieri, Mosasaurus lonzeensis, Mosasaurus minor, Mosasaurus missouriensis, Mosasaurus occidentalis, Mosasaurus prismaticus, Mosasaurus reversus, Mosasaurus scanicus, Amphekepubis johnsoni, Macrosaurus laevis, Macrosaurus validus, Nectoportheus validus
Type specimens:
- Mosasaurus mokoroa: C.M. zfr 1, a partial skeleton (disarticulated skull and vertebrae). Its type locality is Cheviot, which is in a Haumurian marine horizon in the Conway Formation of New Zealand.
- Leiodon haumuriensis: Its type locality is Hamuri Bluff, which is in a Campanian basinal (siliciclastic) sandstone in the Conway Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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