• Prognathodon. Clidastes is known from deposits ranging in age from the Coniacian to the early Campanian in the United States. Clidastes means "locked...
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    Edward Drinker Cope, who thought it was a giant species of Clidastes and named it Clidastes conodon. In 1966, it was reidentified as a species of Mosasaurus...
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  • skeleton, was originally referred to the genus Clidastes by Wiman and then to Halisaurus by Russell. Hence, Clidastes sternbergii became Halisaurus sternbergii...
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    intermediate genus and species between Mosasaurus and the more primitive Clidastes. The study, published in 2023, named the species Jormungandr walhallaensis...
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    part of the Mosasaurinae subfamily, alongside genera like Mosasaurus and Clidastes. Prognathodon has been recovered from deposits ranging in age from the...
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    smallest known mosasaurs (Carinodens, 3–3.5 meters), to medium-sized taxa (Clidastes, 6+ meters), to the largest of the mosasaurs (Mosasaurus hoffmannii) potentially...
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    North America. Plesioplatecarpus was originally named by Cope in 1874 as Clidastes planifrons, and later it was reassigned to Platecarpus. The name Plesioplatecarpus...
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    a marine bony fish, a possible shark, and another, smaller mosasaur (Clidastes). Mosasaur bones have also been found with shark teeth embedded in them...
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  • third new genus of mosasaur to be described from North America behind Clidastes and Platecarpus and the first in Kansas. The early history of the genus...
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    Clidastes liodontus Clidastes moorevillensis Clidastes propython...
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  • Isotopic analysis on teeth specimens has suggested that this genus and Clidastes may have entered freshwater occasionally, just like modern sea snakes...
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    Clidastes propython Clidastes liodontus...
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    (Online). n.d. Leidy, Joseph (1870). "Remarks on Poicilopleuron valens, Clidastes intermedius, Leiodon proriger, Baptemys wyomingensis, and Emys stevensonianus"...
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    zone was characterized by Clidastes liodontus, Platecarpus coryphaeus, and Tylosaurus nepaeolicus. The upper was home to Clidastes, Platecarpus ictericus...
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    of the articular surface, as in the genus Clidastes. The similarities with both Platecarpus and Clidastes were problematic, as said genera have always...
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  • extending to form the posterior margin of the scapular blade, similar to Clidastes. The lateral aspect of the scapula is wide, smooth and flat. The humerus...
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    Illustration of limbs of aquatic reptiles: the mosasaurs Platecarpus and Clidastes, and the ichthyosaurs Ophthalmosaurus and Platypterygius. From The Osteology...
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    Clidastes liodontus Clidastes moorevillensis Clidastes propython...
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  • Aigialosaurus Portunatasaurus Mosasauridae Kaganaias Mosasaurinae Carinodens Clidastes Dallasaurus Globidens Kaikaifilu Mosasaurus Plotosaurus Prognathodon Thalassotitan...
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    Allosaurus. Leidy, Joseph (1870). "Remarks on Poicilopleuron valens, Clidastes intermedius, Leiodon proriger, Baptemys wyomingensis, and Emys stevensonianus"...
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    Clidastes...
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  • of different endocranial organizations in Tethysaurus, Platecarpus and Clidastes, and find no evidence of closer endocranial resemblance of Tethysaurus...
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    belonged to a diminutive species or young individual related to the genus Clidastes. By early in 1873, Marsh had recognized his error. Through further preparation...
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    Mosasaurs were the most common marine reptiles, with genera including Clidastes, Mosasaurus and Tylosaurus. At least some of these marine reptiles are...
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    Mosasaurus, Halisaurus, Prognathodon, Tylosaurus, Ectenosaurus, Globidens, Clidastes, Platecarpus and Plioplatecarpus; and the sea turtles Archelon, Protostega...
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  • doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.02.002. "The first record of the mosasaur Clidastes from Europe and its palaeogeographic implications". ResearchGate. Retrieved...
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    Dallasaurus is the sister group to more derived mosasaurine mosasaurs such as Clidastes, Prognathodon, Mosasaurus, and Plotosaurus. In the popular press, Dallasaurus...
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    Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Mosasaurinae Amphekepubis Clidastes Dallasaurus Gnathomortis Jormungandr Kourisodon Liodon Megapterygius Plesiotylosaurus...
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    The mosasaur, Clidastes hunting ammonites...
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    inclusive, on occasion including genera such as Plesiotylosaurus, Liodon and Clidastes, all of which are now seen as more basal mosasaurines. A more recently...
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