Platecarpus fossils have been found in rocks that date back to the late Santonian through the early Campanian in the Smoky Hill Chalk. Platecarpus was...
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Ectenosaurus (redirect from Platecarpus clidastoides)
evidence of a close relation between Ectenosaurus and Platecarpus. He separated Ectenosaurus from Platecarpus based on the elongated snout, the exclusion of...
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Plesioplatecarpus (redirect from Platecarpus planiforns)
reassigned to Platecarpus. The name Plesioplatecarpus was erected by Takuya Konishi and Michael W. Caldwell in 2011 to incorporate Platecarpus planifrons...
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specialized for crushing mollusk shells. The smaller genera, such as Platecarpus and Dallasaurus, which were about 1–6 m (3.3–19.7 ft) long, probably...
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Latoplatecarpus (redirect from Platecarpus somenensis)
material (e.g. FMNHPR 465, FMNHPR 467 and GSATC 220) of the dubious Platecarpus somenensis to nest within L. nichollsae. The same conclusion has been...
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of mosasaur to be described from North America behind Clidastes and Platecarpus and the first in Kansas. The early history of the genus as a taxon was...
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the Maastrichtian of Niger. While at one point considered a species of Platecarpus, recent phylogenetic analyses have placed it between the (then) plioplatecarpines...
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remain questionable. The subfamily includes the genera Latoplatecarpus, Platecarpus, Plioplatecarpus and Plesioplatecarpus. Plioplatecarpines were small...
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study by Kauffman concluded that the mosasaurs were either Mosasaurus or Platecarpus. The positioning of both bite marks are at the direction the nautiloid's...
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predatory forms alongside other early hydropedal genera like Tylosaurus and Platecarpus. It was likely an agile swimmer that preyed upon cephalopods, fish and...
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C P T J K Pg N Fossil of Aigialosaurus, an aigialosaurid Skeleton of Platecarpus, a mosasaurid Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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revisions for the family. Among these were his conclusion that Platecarpus coryphaeus and Platecarpus ictericus were likely junior synonyms of P. tympaniticus...
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10011007. Everhart, Mike (2008-04-18). "The Platecarpus Collection: A virtual collection of Platecarpus specimens from Kansas and elsewhere". Oceans...
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providing evidence of different endocranial organizations in Tethysaurus, Platecarpus and Clidastes, and find no evidence of closer endocranial resemblance...
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Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon 'Platecarpus' ptychodon". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (21): 1769–1804...
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the Plioplatecarpinae subfamily alongside genera like Angolasaurus and Platecarpus. Two species are known, S. russelli and S. johnsoni; both are exclusively...
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fluke had been suggested for mosasaurs based on skeletal anatomy (as in Platecarpus), this is the first indisputable evidence that derived mosasaurs had...
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rocks and mineral specimens. Displays include a complete skeleton of a Platecarpus "sea serpent", skulls of Parasaurolophus, Ankylosaurus, Apatosaurus,...
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Tylosaurinae Hainosaurus Tylosaurus Taniwhasaurus Plioplatecarpinae Platecarpus Plioplatecarpus Selmasaurus Ophidia Simoliophiidae: Late Cretaceous Eupodophis...
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Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon 'Platecarpus' ptychodon". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (21): 1769–1804...
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plesiosaurs, hesperornithiform seabirds, and mosasaurs, particularly Platecarpus. There is no fossil evidence for vertebrate migration between the northern...
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Halisaurus, Prognathodon, Tylosaurus, Ectenosaurus, Globidens, Clidastes, Platecarpus and Plioplatecarpus; and the sea turtles Archelon, Protostega, Porthochelys...
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Morphology of American Mosasaurs (1967) that the angular resembles that of Platecarpus but is more symmetrically heart-shaped in anterior aspect and appears...
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dominated by plesiosaurs, hesperornithid seabirds, and the mosasaur Platecarpus. Cretoxyrhina lived alongside many predators that shared a similar trophic...
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Illustration of limbs of aquatic reptiles: the mosasaurs Platecarpus and Clidastes, and the ichthyosaurs Ophthalmosaurus and Platypterygius. From The...
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include many other mosasaur genera such as Clidastes, Latoplatecarpus, Platecarpus, Plioplatecarpus, and Tylosaurus, as well as birds (Brodavis, Hesperornis...
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enamel. Gilmore concluded that the skull characters were similar to Platecarpus or, more closely, to Brachysaurus (which is currently Prognathodon)....
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Richard Lydekker uncertainly placed T. oweni within the genus Platecarpus, being renamed Platecarpus oweni. In 1897, in his revision of the distribution of mosasaurs...
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Mosasauridae (including Macrosaurus [?=Tylosaurus], Mosasaurus, and Platecarpus). However, a close relationship between mosasaurs and snakes was rejected...
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P. Bengtson and J. Lindgren. 2005. First record of the mosasaur Platecarpus Cope, 1869 from South America and its systematic implications. Revista...
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