Genus
Valid Extinct

Kourisodon

Nicholls and Meckert 2002

Kourisodon is an extinct genus of mosasaur. Fossils have been found from Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, as well as from the Izumi Group of Japan. These finds date back to the late Santonian stage and the late Campanian to the late Maastrichtian, respectively, of the Late Cretaceous. Kourisodon was originally described as a member of the "Leiodontini", more recently as a "Clidastine".

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Kourisodon
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Mosasaurinae Subfamily
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Kourisodon Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇯🇵 Japan
2
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
Pender
1
Hiketa
1
Mutsuo
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Santonian (85.7–83.6 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Kourisodon puntledgensis 86 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
E. L. Nicholls and D. Meckert. 2002. Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(11):1591-1603 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
M. Tanimoto. 2005. Mosasaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group of southwest Japan. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):373-378 DOI ↗
E. L. Nicholls and D. Meckert. 2002. Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(11):1591-1603 DOI ↗