Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Alternative combination: Clidastes cinerearum

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. On some species of Pythonomorpha from the Cretaceous beds of Kansas and New Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11(81):574-584

Belongs to Clidastes according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Cope 1870, Cope 1875, Cope 1877 and Hay 1902

Sister taxa: Clidastes intermedius, Clidastes liodontus, Clidastes moorevillensis, Clidastes propython

Type specimen: Its type locality is 6 mi S of Sheridan, which is in a Coniacian/Santonian marine chalk in Kansas

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at 6 mi S of Sheridan

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