Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Pluridensini

Longrich et al. 2021

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Pluridensini
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Fossil of Halisaurus, an extinct reptile- Took the picture at Muse (Trento) © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Halisaurinae Unranked clade
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Pluridensini Unranked clade
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇦 Morocco
2
🇺🇸 United States
1
🇳🇬 Nigeria
1
🇳🇪 Niger
1
Geological formations
Couche III
2
Mooreville Chalk
1
Nkporo Shale
1
Farin-Doutchi
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
3
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
N. R. Longrich, N. Bardet, and F. Khaldoune, O. Khadiri Yazami, N.-E. Jalil. 2021. Pluridens serpentis, a new mosasaurid (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the Maastrichtian of Morocco and implications for mosasaur diversity. Cretaceous Research DOI ↗
Bibliography (4)
N. R. Longrich and N. Jalil. 2026. A Giant Halisaurine from the Late Maastrichtian of Morocco. Diversity 18(3):159 DOI ↗
N. R. Longrich, N. Bardet, and F. Khaldoune, O. Khadiri Yazami, N.-E. Jalil. 2021. Pluridens serpentis, a new mosasaurid (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the Maastrichtian of Morocco and implications for mosasaur diversity. Cretaceous Research DOI ↗
N. R. Longrich. 2016. A new species of Pluridens (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the upper Campanian of Southern Nigeria. Cretaceous Research 64:36-44 DOI ↗
T. Lingham-Soliar. 1998. A new mosasaur Pluridens walkeri from the Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian of the Iullemmeden Basin, southwest Niger. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(4):709-707 DOI ↗