Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Alternative combination: Liodon compressidens
Full reference: A. Gaudry. 1892. Les pythonomorphes de France. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie 10:1-13
Belongs to Prognathodon according to A. S. Schulp et al. 2008
See also Gaudry 1892 and Russell 1967
Sister taxa: Liodon, Prognathodon currii, Prognathodon giganteus, Prognathodon kianda, Prognathodon lutugini, Prognathodon mosasauroides, Prognathodon overtoni, Prognathodon rapax, Prognathodon saturator, Prognathodon sectorius, Prognathodon solvayi, Prognathodon waiparaensis
Type specimen: MNHN-Z-C-1878-5, a partial skull (Lower and upper toothed jaws (including premaxilla, the right maxilla and both dentaries)). Its type locality is Michery (vertebrate locality), which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in France.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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