Species
Valid Extinct

Globidens phosphaticus

Bardet et al. 2005

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Mosasaurinae Subfamily
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Globidensini Tribe
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Globidens Genus
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Globidens phosphaticus Species
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇦 Morocco
5
🇸🇾 Syria
1
🇪🇬 Egypt
1
🇦🇴 Angola
1
Geological formations
Duwi
1
Mocuio
1
Phosphates
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
6
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and M. Iarochène, M. Amalik, B. Bouya. 2005. Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):167-175 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
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. J. Polcyn, L. L. Jacobs, and A. S. Schulp, O. Mateus. 2010. The North African Mosasaur Globidens phosphaticus from the Maastrichtian of Angola. Historical Biology 22(1-3):175-185 DOI ↗
N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and M. Iarochène, M. Amalik, B. Bouya. 2005. Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):167-175 DOI ↗