Plioplatecarpus

Plioplatecarpus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 73–66 Ma
P. primaevus skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Mosasauria
Family: Mosasauridae
Clade: Russellosaurina
Subfamily: Plioplatecarpinae
Tribe: Plioplatecarpini
Genus: Plioplatecarpus
Dollo, 1882
Species
  • P. marshi Dollo, 1882 (type)
  • P. depressus (Cope, 1869)
  • P. primaevus Russell, 1967
  • P. houzeaui (Dollo, 1889)
  • P. peckensis Cuthbertson and Holmes, 2015
Synonyms
  • Oterognathus Dollo, 1889

Plioplatecarpus is a genus of mosasaur lizard. Like all mosasaurs, it lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 73-68 million years ago.