Genus
Valid Extinct

Leiodon

Owen 1842

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
18
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Leiodon
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PBDB
Classification
Mosasauridae Family
Mosasaurinae Subfamily
Leiodon Genus
Fossil sites 18 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇸🇾 Syria
7
🇦🇶 Antarctica
2
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
🇩🇪 Germany
1
🇫🇷 France
1
🇸🇪 Sweden
1
🇺🇦 Ukraine
1
🇵🇱 Poland
1
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
🇯🇴 Jordan
1
Geological formations
Gramame
2
Grünsandstein
1
Craie de Meudon
1
Opoka
1
Phosphates
1
Muwaddar Chalk Marl
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
8
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
9
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Species (3)
Leiodon anceps 101 Ma
Leiodon lundgreni
Mosasaurus stenodon subjective synonym of Leiodon anceps 101 Ma
Images 8
Bibliography
Original description
R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204
Bibliography (11)
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A. Gaudry. 1892. Les pythonomorphes de France. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie 10:1-13
A. v. Wagner. 1853. Beschreibung einer fossilen Schildkröte und etlicher anderer Reptilien-Ueberreste aus den lithographischen Schiefern und dem Grünsandstein. Abhandlungen der Mathemat.-Physikalischen Classe de Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 7:241-264