Genus: Lesticodus LEIDY, 1861 (nomen dubium)
= Drepanodon LEIDY, 1856 non Nesti, 1816 Note: Leidy mistakenly
considered Lesticodus to be a species of Drepanodon, which
is a cave bear (thanks to Vahn Demirjian for allurting me to this).
Etymology:
Species: impar (LEIDY, 1856)
LEIDY, 1861
Etymology:
= Drepanodon impar LEIDY, 1856
= Mosasaurus impar (LEIDY,
1856) LEIDY, 1865 (nomen dubium)
Holotype: At Museum of Williams Collage.
USNM 7446 Cast.
Locality: Elizabethtown, Cape Fear, Bladen County, North Carolina.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Cretaceous.
Material: Pterygoid tooth.
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