Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Alternative combination: Thecachampsa rugosus

Full reference: E. Emmons. 1858. Palaeontology. Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (XV)193-212

Belongs to Polyptchodon according to Emmons 1858

See also Baird and Horner 1979, Cope 1871, Emmons 1858, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lucas et al. 2006 and Miller 1967

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM PAL 535447, a tooth. Its type locality is Elizabethtown, which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Tar Heel Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Polyptchodon rugosus in the database

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