Platecarpus planifrons Cope 1874

Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Alternative combinations: Clidastes planifrons, Lestosaurus planifrons, Plesioplatecarpus planifrons

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1874. Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period found west of the Mississippi River. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, First Series 2:3-48

Belongs to Platecarpus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Bell et al. 2013, Cope 1874, Cope 1875, Driscoll et al. 2019, Fanti et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Konishi and Caldwell 2007, Konishi and Caldwell 2011 and Russell 1967

Sister taxa: Platecarpus affinis, Platecarpus anguliferus, Platecarpus brachycephalus, Platecarpus crassartus, Platecarpus curtirostris, Platecarpus glandiferus, Platecarpus latispinus, Platecarpus tectulus, Platecarpus tympaniticus, Sironectes anguliferus, Lestosaurus latispinus, Lestosaurus tectulus, Lestosaurus glandiferus, Holcodus acutidens

Type specimen: AMNH 1491, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is 7 miles southeast of Castle Rock, which is in a Coniacian/Santonian marine chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (5: Kansas, Texas collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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