Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Alternative combinations: Clidastes sternbergi, Clidastes sternbergii, Halisaurus sternbergi
Belongs to Eonatator according to N. Bardet et al. 2005
See also Bardet and Pereda Suberbiola 2001, Driscoll et al. 2019, Fanti et al. 2014, Hay 1930, Lindgren and Siverson 2005, Russell 1967, Russell 1970 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxon: Eonatator coellensis
Type specimen: UPI R 163, a partial skeleton (A nearly complete skeleton). Its type locality is Bilby's Ranch, Beaver Creek, which is in a Santonian marine chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Sweden (3 collections), United States (2: Alabama, Kansas)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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