Globidens alabamensis Gilmore 1912 (mosasaur)

Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Alternative combination: Globidens alabamaensis

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1912. A new mosasauroid reptile from the Cretaceous of Alabama. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 41(1870):479-484

Belongs to Globidens according to F. Fanti et al. 2014

See also Bardet et al. 2005, Driscoll et al. 2019, Hay 1930, Russell 1967, Russell 1970, Thurmond 1969 and Thurmond and Jones 1981

Sister taxa: Globidens dakotensis, Globidens phosphaticus, Globidens schurmanni, Globidens simplex

Type specimen: USNM 6527, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Bogue Chitto prairies, which is in a Campanian marginal marine chalk in the Mooreville Chalk Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (4: Alabama, Delaware, South Dakota collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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