Liodon Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Drawings of teeth and jaw elements referred to Liodon anceps by Richard Owen | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Clade: | †Mosasauria |
Family: | †Mosasauridae |
Subfamily: | †Mosasaurinae |
Genus: | †Liodon Agassiz, 1846 |
Species: | †L. anceps
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Binomial name | |
†Liodon anceps (Owen, 1841)
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Liodon is a dubious[1] genus of mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous, known from fragmentary fossils discovered in St James' Pit, England and possibly also the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco.[2] Though dubious and of uncertain phylogenetic affinities, Liodon was historically a highly important taxon in mosasaur systematics, being one of the genera on which the family Mosasauridae was based.