Genre
Valide Éteint

Carinodens

Thurmond 1969

Carinodens is an extinct genus of Cretaceous marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. "Carinodens" means "keel teeth" and was named in 1969 as a replacement name for Compressidens, "compressed teeth", which was already in use for a gadilidan scaphopod mollusk.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
16
Groupe
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestre
Carinodens
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Fossil of Carinodens, an extinct mosasaur- Took the photo at Natural History Museum of Maastricht © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Mosasauridae Famille
Mosasaurinae Sous-famille
Globidensini Tribu
Carinodens Genre
Sites de découverte 16 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇳🇱 Pays-Bas
4
🇲🇦 Maroc
3
🇧🇷 Brésil
3
🇷🇺 Russie
1
🇩🇰 Danemark
1
🇧🇪 Belgique
1
🇦🇴 Angola
1
🇺🇸 États-Unis
1
🇺🇦 Ukraine
1
Formations géologiques
Maastricht
5
Gramame
3
Bereza Beds
1
Stevns Klint
1
Mocuio
1
Severn
1
Couche III
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
16
Espèces (4)
Carinodens acrodon 72 Ma
Carinodens belgicus 72 Ma
Carinodens fraasi 72 Ma
Carinodens minalmamar 72 Ma
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
J. T. Thurmond. 1969. New name for the mosasaur Compressidens Dollo, 1924. Journal of Paleontology 43(5):1298
Bibliographie (11)
N. R. Longrich, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and N. Jalil, N. Bardet. 2024. A New Species of the Durophagous Mosasaurid Carinodens from the Late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and Implications for Maastrichtian Mosasaurid Diversity. Diversity 17(1):25 DOI ↗
J. Milàn, J. W. M. Jagt, and J. Lindgren, A. S. Schulp. 2018. First record of Carinodens (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the uppermost Maastrichtian of Stevns Klint, Denmark. Alcheringa 42(4):597-602 DOI ↗
E. W. A. Mulder, P. Formanoy, and W. B. Gallagher, J. W. M. Jagt, A. S. Schulp. 2013. The first North American record of Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) and correlation with the youngest in situ examples from the Maastrichtian type area: palaeoecological implications. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie En Mijnbouw 92(2-3):145-152 DOI ↗
A. S. Schulp, M. J. Polcyn, and O. Mateus, L. L. Jacobs. 2013. Two rare mosasaurs from the Maastrichtian of Angola and the Netherlands. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 92(1):3-10 DOI ↗
A. S. Schulp, N. Bardet, and B. Bouya. 2009. A new species of the durophagous mosasaur Carinodens (Squamata, Mosasauridae) and additional material of Carinodens belgicus from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 88(3):161-167 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 ↗
A. S. Schulp, A. O. Averianov, and A. A. Yarkov, F. A. Trikolidi, J. W. M. Jagt. 2006. First record of the Late Cretaceous durophagous mosaasaur Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Volgogradskaya Oblast (Russia) and Crimea (Ukraine). Russian Journal of Herpetology 213(3):175-180
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 ↗
A. S. Schulp, J. W. M. Jagt, and F. Fonken. 2004. New material of the mosasaur Carinodens belgicus from the Upper Cretaceous of the Netherlands. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):744-747 DOI ↗
L. B. de Carvalho. 1996. A ocorrência de lagartos marinhos (Mosasauridae - Lepidosauria) e sua associação faunística no cretáceo da Bacia Pernambuco Paraíba, nordeste do Brasil.
L. I. Price. 1957. A presença de Globidens no Cretácico Superior do Brasil. Boletim da Divisao de Geologia e Mineralogia, Rio de Janeiro 169:1-24