• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 10011007. Everhart, Mike (2008-04-18). "The Platecarpus Collection: A virtual collection of Platecarpus specimens from Kansas and elsewhere". Oceans...
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  • Tylosaurinae Hainosaurus Tylosaurus Taniwhasaurus Plioplatecarpinae Platecarpus Plioplatecarpus Selmasaurus Ophidia Simoliophiidae: Late Cretaceous Eupodophis...
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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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  • of limbs by adaptation to aquatic life. The oldest fossil material of Platecarpus from Europe reported to date, as well as fossil material of Tylosaurus...
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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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    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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    Halisaurus, Prognathodon, Tylosaurus, Ectenosaurus, Globidens, Clidastes, Platecarpus and Plioplatecarpus; and the sea turtles Archelon, Protostega, Porthochelys...
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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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    dominated by plesiosaurs, hesperornithid seabirds, and the mosasaur Platecarpus. Cretoxyrhina lived alongside many predators that shared a similar trophic...
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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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    Illustration of limbs of aquatic reptiles: the mosasaurs Platecarpus and Clidastes, and the ichthyosaurs Ophthalmosaurus and Platypterygius. From The...
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    Plioplatecarpus, as would Cope's Liodon, in 1870. Liodon would be reclassified as Platecarpus, and later as Prognathodon or this genus. In 1999, Holmes and colleagues...
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  • fish Nothosaurus (cameo), an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile Platecarpus, an extinct genus of aquatic lizard belonging to the mosasaur family...
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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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  • a pterosaur, possibly an ornithocheirid. Fossils of a mosasaur, cf. Platecarpus sp. were also reported from the formation. Cretaceous Australia List...
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