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Tylosaurus nepaeolicus
Taxonomy
Liodon nepaeolicus was named by Cope (1874). Its type specimen is AMNH 1565, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 0.5 mi south of Solomon River, which is in a Coniacian/Santonian marine shale in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Tylosaurus.
It was recombined as Tylosaurus nepaeolicus by Merriam (1894), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Russell (1967), Bell et al. (2013), Fanti et al. (2014) and Driscoll et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Tylosaurus nepaeolicus by Merriam (1894), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Russell (1967), Bell et al. (2013), Fanti et al. (2014) and Driscoll et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1874 | Liodon nepaeolicus Cope p. 37 |
| 1875 | Liodon nepaeolicus Cope p. 178 |
| 1894 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Merriam p. 24 |
| 1902 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Hay p. 472 |
| 1930 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Hay p. 259 |
| 1967 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Russell p. 175 |
| 2013 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Bell Jr. et al. p. 575 |
| 2014 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Fanti et al. |
| 2019 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Driscoll et al. |
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†Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Cope 1874
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available