Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Alternative combination: Platecarpus minor
Full reference: R. W. Gibbes. 1851. Memoir on Mosasaurus and the three allied new genera, Holcodus, Conosaurus, and Amphorosteus. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 2(5):1-13
Belongs to Mosasaurus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Cope 1869, Cope 1875, Gibbes 1851, Hay 1902 and Russell 1967
Sister taxa: Mosasaurus beaugei, Mosasaurus caroliniensis, Mosasaurus conodon, Mosasaurus couperi, Mosasaurus dekayi, Mosasaurus depressus, Mosasaurus flemingi, Mosasaurus gaudryi, Mosasaurus gracilis, Mosasaurus grosjeani, Mosasaurus hobetsuensis, Mosasaurus hoffmannii, Mosasaurus horridus, Mosasaurus impar, Mosasaurus ivoensis, Mosasaurus lemonnieri, Mosasaurus lonzeensis, Mosasaurus missouriensis, Mosasaurus mokoroa, Mosasaurus occidentalis, Mosasaurus prismaticus, Mosasaurus reversus, Mosasaurus scanicus, Macrosaurus validus, Macrosaurus laevis, Amphekepubis johnsoni, Nectoportheus validus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mosasaurus minor in the database
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