Species
Valid Extinct

Carinodens belgicus

(Woodward 1891)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
10
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Classification
Mosasauridae Family
Mosasaurinae Subfamily
Globidensini Tribe
Carinodens Genus
Carinodens belgicus Species
Fossil sites 10 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇳🇱 Netherlands
4
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
🇺🇦 Ukraine
1
🇷🇺 Russia
1
🇧🇪 Belgium
1
🇦🇴 Angola
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Maastricht
5
Bereza Beds
1
Mocuio
1
Severn
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
10
Bibliography
Original description
A. S. Woodward. 1891. Note on tooth of an extinct alligator (Bottosaurus belgicus, sp. nov.) from the Lower Danian of Ciply, Belgium. Geological Magazine 8(3):114-115 DOI ↗
Bibliography (6)
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 ↗
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 ↗