Genus: Platecarpus non COPE, 1869

Species:? minor (GIBBES, 1850) RUSSELL, 1967 (nomen vanum)
Etymology:
= Mosasaurus minor GIBBES, 1850

Holotype:

Locality: Alabama.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material: 3 vertebrae.

Referred material:

Locality: Alabama.

Horizon: Upper Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

 

Locality: Georgia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

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Species: glandiferus (COPE, 1871) COPE, 1874 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:
= Liodon glandiferus COPE, 1871 (nomen dubium)
= Lestosaurus glandiferus (COPE, 1871) HAY, 1902 (nomen dubium)

Holotype:

Locality: A bluff on the lower part of the Butte Creek, Kansas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material: Vertebra.

Referred material:

Locality: 1 mile south-east of Sheridan near north Fork of Smoky River, Sheridan County, Kansas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Vertebra.

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Species:? latispinus (COPE, 1871) WILLISTON, 1898 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:
= Liodon latispinus COPE, 1871 (nomen dubium)
= ?Lestosaurus latispinus (COPE, 1871) HAY, 1902 (nomen dubium)

Holotype: AMNH 1536

Locality: 1 mile south-west of Sheridan near the 'Gypsum Buttes', Sheridan County, Kansas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material: Vertebrae.
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Species: tectulus (COPE, 1871) WILLISTON, 1898 (nomen vanum)
Etymology:
= Holcodus tectulus COPE, 1871 (nomen vanum)
= Lestosaurus tectulus (COPE, 1871) HAY, 1902 (nomen vanum)

Holotype: AMNH 1570

Locality: From a low bluff on Butte Creek, 14 miles south of Fort Wallace, Wallace County, Kansas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material: Vertebrae.
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Species: affinis (LEIDY, 1873) RUSSELL, 1967 (nomen vanum)
Etymology:
= Clidastes affinis LEIDY, 1873 (nomen vanum)

Holotype: USNM 69

Locality: Smoky Hill River, Kansas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material: Nearly complete dentary with teeth.

Cotypes:

USNM 49: Fragments of cranium.

USNM 57: Basisphenoid.

USNM 63: Humerus.
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