Genre
Valide Éteint

Plioplatecarpus

Dollo 1882

Plioplatecarpus est un genre éteint de mosasaures ayant vécu durant le Crétacé supérieur, il y entre 73 et 68 millions d'années.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
La plage temporelle dépasse légèrement la limite K-Pg (66 Ma). Probable décalage d'intervalle dans les données PBDB.
Occurrences PBDB
28
Groupe
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestre
Plioplatecarpus
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Plioplatecarpus primaevus skull, Oxford University Museum of Natural History . © User:Ballista · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Mosasauridae Famille
Plioplatecarpinae Sous-famille
Plioplatecarpini Clade non classé
Plioplatecarpus Genre
Sites de découverte 28 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
11
🇨🇦 Canada
4
🇦🇶 Antarctique
3
🇸🇪 Suède
2
🇩🇰 Danemark
2
🇷🇺 Russie
1
🇳🇱 Pays-Bas
1
🇧🇪 Belgique
1
🇨🇩 Congo (RDC)
1
🇳🇪 Niger
1
Formations géologiques
Bearpaw Shale
3
Fox Hills
3
St. Mary River
2
Danish White Chalk
2
Demopolis Chalk
1
Demopolis
1
Maastricht
1
Snow Hill Island
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
15
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
12
Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Espèces (5)
Plioplatecarpus crassartus 84 Ma
Plioplatecarpus houzeaui 72 Ma
Plioplatecarpus marshi 72 Ma
Plioplatecarpus peckensis 84 Ma
Plioplatecarpus primaevus 84 Ma
Synonymes (1)
Oterognathus subjective synonym of Plioplatecarpus
Images 3
Bibliographie
Description originale
J. J., Jr. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
Bibliographie (23)
T. H. Rempert, B. P. Martens, and A. P. M. Vinkeles Melchers. 2024. New mosasaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Mississippi. The Mosasaur 13:79-90 DOI ↗
A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12 DOI ↗
R. S. Cuthbertson and R. B. Holmes. 2015. A new species of Plioplatecarpus (Mosasauridae, Plioplatecarpinae) from the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Montana, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(3):e922980:1-18 DOI ↗
N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 DOI ↗
M. S. Fernández and Z. Gasparini. 2012. Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurs from Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia, Argentina. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(2):93-102 DOI ↗
M. Fernández, J. Martin, and S. Casadío. 2008. Mosasaurs (Reptilia) from the late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of northern Patagonia (Río Negro, Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25(2):176-186 DOI ↗
J. W. Hoganson, J. M. Erickson, and F. D. Holland. 2007. Amphibian, reptilian, and avian remains from the Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian): shoreline and estuarine deposits of the Pierre Sea in south-central North Dakota. The Geology and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Marine Deposits of the Dakotas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:239-256 DOI ↗
J. W. M. Jagt, N. Motchurova-Dekova, and P. Ivanov, H. Capetta, A. S. Schulp. 2006. Latest Cretaceous mosasaurs and lamniform sharks from Labirinta cave, Vratsa district (northwest Bulgaria): a preliminary note. Annales Geologiques de la Peninsule Balkanique 67:51-63 DOI ↗
J. E. Martin and J. A. Crame. 2006. Palaeobiological significance of high-latitude Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica 258(1):109-124 DOI ↗
J. Lindgren and J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Danish mosasaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):315-320 DOI ↗
A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2004. Carnivorous dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) from the Maastrichtian of the Volga-Don interfluve, Russia. Paleontological Journal 38(1):78-82
J. W. Hoganson and B. Woodward. 2004. Skeleton of the rare giant sea turtle, Archelon, recovered from the Cretaceous DeGrey Member of the Pierre Shale near Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota. North Dakota Geological Society Newsletter 32(1):1-4
E. W. A. Mulder. 1999. Transatlantic latest Cretaceous mosasaurs (Reptilia, Lacertilia) from the Maastrichtian type area and New Jersey. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:281-300
R. Holmes. 1996. Pliopletecarpus primaevus (Mosasauridae) from the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of the North American Western Interior Seaway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(4):673-687 DOI ↗
T. Lingham-Soliar. 1994. First record of mosasaurs from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Zaire. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 68(1/2):259-265 DOI ↗
T. T. Tokaryk. 1993. A plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Bearpaw Shale (Upper Cretaceous) of Saskatchewan, Canada. Modern Geology 18:503-509
T. Lingham-Soliar. 1991. Mosasaurs from the Upper Cretacous of Niger. Palaeontology 34(3):653-670
W. Langston. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1576-1608 DOI ↗
J. Bergström, W. K. Christensen, and C. Johansson, E. Norling. 1973. An extension of Upper Cretaceous Rocks to the Swedish west coast at Särdal. Bull. geol. Soc. Denmark 22:83-154
J. T. Thurmond. 1969. Notes on mosasaurs from Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 21(1):69-80
D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs.
P. O. Persson. 1960. Reptiles from the Senonian (U Cret) of Scania (S Sweden). Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi 2(35):431-478
E. D. Cope. 1871. Catalogue of the Pythonomorpha found in the Cretaceous strata of Kansas. Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society (separate) DOI ↗