Species
Valid Extinct

Platecarpus tympaniticus

Cope 1869

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
17
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Classification
Mosasauridae Family
Plioplatecarpinae Subfamily
Plioplatecarpini Unranked clade
Platecarpus Genus
Platecarpus tympaniticus Species
Fossil sites 17 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
15
🇨🇦 Canada
1
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Ector Chalk
1
Eutaw
1
Torme
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
6
Santonian (85.7–83.6 Ma)
2
Coniacian (89.8–85.7 Ma)
7
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Synonyms (8)
Holcodus coryphaeus subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Holosaurus abruptus subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Lestosaurus felix subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Lestosaurus gracilis subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Lestosaurus latifrons subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Lestosaurus simus subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Liodon ictericus subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Liodon mudgei subjective synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
Bibliography
Original description
E. D. Cope. 1869. On the reptilian orders Pythonomorpha and Streptosauria. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:250-266
Bibliography (13)
J. G. Allen and K. Shimada. 2022. Fossil vertebrates from a unique marine bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk, western Kansas, U.S.A.: new insights into the paleoecology of the Niobrara Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(e2066999) 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 ↗
T. Konishi, M. W. Caldwell, and G. L. Bell, Jr. 2010. Redescription of the holotype of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope, 1869 (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae), and its implications for the alpha taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1410-1421 DOI ↗
J. Lindgren, M. W. Caldwell, and T. Konishi, L. M. Chiappe. 2010. Convergent evolution in aquatic tetrapods: insights from an exceptional fossil mosasaur. PLoS One 5(8):e11998 DOI ↗
S. A. Hamm and K. Shimada. 2007. The Late Cretaceous anacoracid shark, Pseudocorax laevis (Leriche), from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110:44-52 DOI ↗
N. Bardet, J. C. Corral, and X. Pereda Superbiola. 1997. Les mosasaures (Squamata) du Cretace Superieur du Bassin Basco-Cantabrique. Geobios 20:19-26 DOI ↗
D. Thies and J. Vespermann. 1995. Die Mosasaurier des Roemer-Museums in Hildesheim. (The Mosasauridae of the Roemer Museum in Hildesheim). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 69(3/4):459-465 DOI ↗
J. T. Thurmond. 1969. Notes on mosasaurs from Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 21(1):69-80
D. A. Russell. 1967. Cretaceous vertebrates from the Anderson River N. W. T. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 4(1):21-38 DOI ↗
D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs.
M. G. Mehl. 1930. A new genus of mosasaurs from Mexico, and notes on the pelvic girdle of Platecarpus. Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific Laboratories 29(10):383-400
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