Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Alternative combination: Kolposaurus bennisoni
Full reference: C. L. Camp. 1942. California mosasaurs. Memoirs of the University of California 13(1):1-68
Belongs to Plotosaurus according to F. Fanti et al. 2014
See also Camp 1942, Camp 1951, Driscoll et al. 2019 and Russell 1967
Sister taxa: Garzasaurus, Plotosaurus tuckeri
Type specimen: UCMP 32778, a skull (skull, 18 anterior vertebrae, interclavicle, and rib fragments). Its type locality is Gustine, UCMP V3718, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Moreno Formation of California.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: California collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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