Platecarpus Cope 1869 (mosasaur)

Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Synonyms: Holcodus Gibbes 1851, Holocodus Gibbes 1851, Holosaurus Marsh 1880, Lestosaurus Marsh 1872, Sironectes Cope 1874

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. On the reptilian orders Pythonomorpha and Streptosauria. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:250-266

Parent taxon: Plioplatecarpini according to N. R. Longrich et al. 2024

See also Bardet et al. 2005, Bell and Polcyn 2005, Bell et al. 2013, Carroll 1988, Cope 1869, Cope 1870, Cope 1874, Driscoll et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hornung et al. 2018, Konishi et al. 2010, Konishi et al. 2012, Leidy 1873, McDowell and Bogert 1954, Novas et al. 2002, Plasse et al. 2024, Russell 1967, Russell 1970, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond 1969, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Latoplatecarpus, Plesioplatecarpus, Plioplatecarpus

Subtaxa: Holcodus acutidens Lestosaurus glandiferus Lestosaurus latispinus Lestosaurus tectulus Platecarpus affinis Platecarpus anguliferus Platecarpus brachycephalus Platecarpus crassartus Platecarpus curtirostris Platecarpus glandiferus Platecarpus latispinus Platecarpus planifrons Platecarpus tectulus Platecarpus tympaniticus Sironectes anguliferus

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Type: Platecarpus tympaniticus

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), Brazil (2), Canada (4: Manitoba, Northwest Territories), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Jordan (1), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (2), United States (38: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Mississipii, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 55 collections including 56 occurrences

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