†Plesiotylosaurus crassidens Camp 1942 (mosasaur)
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Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Full reference: C. L. Camp. 1942. California mosasaurs. Memoirs of the University of California 13(1):1-68
Belongs to Plesiotylosaurus according to F. Fanti et al. 2014
See also Camp 1942, Driscoll et al. 2019, Lindgren 2009 and Russell 1967
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: LACM 2759. Its type locality is LACM (CIT) 328, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale 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
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