Amphekepubis

Amphekepubis
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 89.3–84.9 Ma
↓
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: †Mosasauria
Family: †Mosasauridae
Genus: †Amphekepubis
Mehl, 1930
Species:
†A. johnsoni
Binomial name
†Amphekepubis johnsoni
Mehl, 1930

Amphekepubis is a dubious genus of mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico.[1] Their remains correspond to the holotype specimen UM VP 509, a partial skeleton preserved in three dimensions, comprising the pelvic area, hind limb bones and nine caudal vertebrae, found in the east of Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Leon, which come from marine sediments (claystones) apparently from the San Felipe Formation, which corresponds to the boundary between the ages of Coniacian and Santonian in the early Late Cretaceous.[2][3] Amphekepubis is classified within the Mosasaurinae subfamily of mosasaurs.[4]

It has been suggested that the age of the fossils assigned to Amphekepubis may be more recent and that its remains might even belong to the genus Mosasaurus;[5][6] some recent reviews have simply assigned its type specimen to Mosasaurus.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference fossilworks was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mehl, M. G. (1930). "A new genus of mosasaurs from Mexico, and notes on the pelvic girdle of Platecarpus". Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific Laboratories. 29 (10): 383–400.
  3. ^ a b Buchy, M.-C.; Smith, K. T.; Frey, E.; Stinnesbeck, W.; González, A. H. González; Ifrim, C.; López-Oliva, J. G.; Porras-Muzquiz, H. (2005). "Annotated catalogue of marine squamates (Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of northeastern Mexico". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 84 (3): 195–205. doi:10.1017/S0016774600020977. ISSN 0016-7746. S2CID 132009809.
  4. ^ DeBraga, Michael; Carroll, Robert L. (1993), Hecht, Max K.; MacIntyre, Ross J.; Clegg, Michael T. (eds.), "The Origin of Mosasaurs As a Model of Macroevolutionary Patterns and Processes", Evolutionary Biology, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 245–322, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-2878-4_7, ISBN 978-1-4615-2878-4, retrieved 2022-07-13
  5. ^ Buchy, Marie-Céline; Eberhard Frey; Wolfgang Stinnesbeck; José Guadalupe López-Oliva (2007). "Cranial anatomy of a Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from north-east Mexico" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 24 (1): 89–103. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  6. ^ Lingham-Soliar, Theagarten (1995). "Anatomy and functional morphology of the largest marine reptile known, Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mosasauridae, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous, Upper Maastrichtian of The Netherlands". Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. 347 (1320): 155–180. doi:10.1098/rstb.1995.0019. JSTOR 55929.