First Evidence of Mosasaurs in Maastrichtian Cretaceous Spain

First finding of Mosasauridae (Squamata) in the Maastrichtian (Cretaceous final) Alicante (Comunidad de Valencia, Levante Spanish)

Authors:

Bardet et al.

Abstract:

Although the genre is known worldwide Prognathodon mosasaur for the end Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), we present the first occurence in the Spanish Levante. Previously it was known in Basque contemporary standards. The Ibi specimen corresponds to a tooth of the pterygoid. Although no specific level can identify the tooth belongs to a species of toothed Prognathodon 'thin' as P. compressidens, P. sectorius and P. mosasauroides, the Campanian-Maastrichtian of Europe, or P. Kianda Maastrichtian of Angola.

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