Species
Valid Extinct

Clidastes liodontus

Merriam 1894

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Mosasaurinae Subfamily
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Clidastes Genus
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Clidastes liodontus Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
3
Geological formations
Niobrara
1
Pen
1
Mooreville Chalk
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Santonian (85.7–83.6 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
Bibliography (3)
G. L. Bell Jr., K. R. Barnes, and M. J. Polcyn. 2013. Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the Big bend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:571-581 DOI ↗
M. J. Everhart. 2001. Revisions to the biostratigraphy of the Moasasauridae (Squamata) in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobara Chalk (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 104(1-2):59-78 DOI ↗
K. R. Wright. 1988. The first record of Clidastes liodontus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the eastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(3):343-345 DOI ↗