| Plesioplatecarpus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Reconstructed skeleton in Geocentrum, University of Uppsala | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Clade: | †Russellosaurina |
| Subfamily: | †Plioplatecarpinae |
| Tribe: | †Plioplatecarpini |
| Genus: | †Plesioplatecarpus Konishi & Caldwell, 2011 |
| Species: | †P. planifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| †Plesioplatecarpus planifrons | |
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Platecarpus planifrons (Cope, 1874) | |
Plesioplatecarpus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur known from the Late Cretaceous (middle Coniacian to middle Santonian stage) of the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western Interior Basin of North America.[1]
- ^ Konishi, Takuya; Michael W. Caldwell (2011). "Two new plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a global phylogenetic analysis of plioplatecarpines". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (4): 754–783. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.579023. S2CID 85972311.