Eonatator sternbergii Wiman 1920 (mosasaur)

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

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