Species
Valid Extinct

Leiodon anceps

(Owen 1841)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
15
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Classification
Mosasauridae Family
Mosasaurinae Subfamily
Leiodon Genus
Leiodon anceps Species
Fossil sites 15 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇸🇾 Syria
7
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
🇩🇪 Germany
1
🇫🇷 France
1
🇸🇪 Sweden
1
🇵🇱 Poland
1
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
🇯🇴 Jordan
1
Geological formations
Gramame
2
Grünsandstein
1
Craie de Meudon
1
Opoka
1
Phosphates
1
Muwaddar Chalk Marl
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
5
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
9
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Synonyms (1)
Mosasaurus stenodon subjective synonym of Leiodon anceps
Bibliography
Original description
A. S. Schulp, M. J. Polcyn, and O. Mateus, L. L. Jacobs, M. L. Morais. 2008. A new species of Prognathodon (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola, and the affinities of the mosasaur genus Liodon. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting
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