Liodon

Liodon
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Campanian–Maastrichtian
Drawings of teeth and jaw elements referred to Liodon anceps by Richard Owen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Mosasauria
Family: Mosasauridae
Subfamily: Mosasaurinae
Genus: Liodon
Agassiz, 1846
Species:
L. anceps
Binomial name
Liodon anceps
(Owen, 1841)
Synonyms

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.

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