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Plioplatecarpus ✝

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Description

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

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plioplatecarpus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4819768	https://www.gbif.org/species/4819768
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36408	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36408

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Mosasauridae : Plioplatecarpus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
-	Episquamata	Pyron et al. 2013
-	Toxicofera	Vidal and Hedges 2005
superfamily	Mosasauria
family	Mosasauridae	Gervais 1852
-	Russellosaurina
genus	Plioplatecarpus	Dollo 1882

Scientific Name

Plioplatecarpus Dollo, 1882

Name Published In

Bull. Mus. Belgique, 1, 62

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Mosasauridae	stated with evidence	McDowell and Bogert, 1954
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Plioplatecarpini	stated with evidence	Russell, 1967
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Mosasauridae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Plioplatecarpidae	stated with evidence	Tokaryk, 1993
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Mosasauridae	stated with evidence	Novas et al., 2002
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Squamata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Plioplatecarpidae	stated with evidence	Bardet et al., 2005
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Russellosaurina	stated with evidence	Bell and Polcyn, 2005
Plioplatecarpus	genus	belongs to Plioplatecarpidae	stated without evidence	Cuthbertson et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 61.7 Ma
Phanerozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Vision

well-developed (based on Mosasauridae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Mosasauridae)

Reproduction

ovoviviparous (based on Mosasauridae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plioplatecarpus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mosasaurus depressus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Plioplatecarpus houzeaui ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Plioplatecarpus marshi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Plioplatecarpus peckensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Plioplatecarpus primaevus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Plioplatecarpus Dollo
1889	Oterognathus Dollo p. 69
1954	Plioplatecarpus McDowell and Bogert p. 132
1967	Plioplatecarpus Russell p. 158
1988	Plioplatecarpus Carroll
1993	Plioplatecarpus Tokaryk

Year	Name and Author
2002	Plioplatecarpus Novas et al.
2002	Plioplatecarpus Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Plioplatecarpus Bardet et al.
2005	Plioplatecarpus Bell and Polcyn p. 189
2007	Plioplatecarpus Cuthbertson et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

McDowell S. B., Bogert C. M. (1954) The systematic postition of Lanthanotus and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105 1, 1-142

Russell D. A. (1967) Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria), Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23, 1-252

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Tokaryk T. T. (1993) A plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Bearpaw Shale (Upper Cretaceous) of Saskatchewan, Canada, Modern Geology 18, 503-509

Novas F. E., Fernández M., et al (2002) Lakumasaurus antarcticus, n. gen. et sp., a new mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica, Ameghiniana 39 2, 245-249

Bardet N., Pereda Suberbiola X., et al (2005) A new species of Halisaurus from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, and the phylogenetical relationships of the Halisaurinae (Squamata: Mosasauridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143, 447-472

Bell G. L., Polcyn M. J. (2005) Dallasaurus turneri, a new primitive mosasauroid from the Middle Turonian of Texas and comments on the phylogeny of Mosasauridae (Squamata), Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84 3, 177-194

Cuthbertson R. S., Mallon J. C., et al (2007) A new species of mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Pierre Shale (lower Campanian) of Manitoba, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44, 593-606

Bull. Mus. Belgique, 1, 62 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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