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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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