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Prognathodon was first described by Louis Dollo in 1889 based on specimens gathered in Belgium.There is some confusion over the correct generic name for the taxon. Dollo first mentioned the taxon as "Prognathodon" in some preliminary notes and provided a provisional diagnosis, but replaced the name Prognathodon with "Prognathosaurus" and used Prognathosaurus in all of his subsequent papers ...
The genus contains a single species, G. stadtmani, considered a species of the related Prognathodon up until its 2020 redescription. [2] It was a large mosasaur measuring 10.5 metres (34 ft) long. [3] Gnathomortis was originally named as a species of Prognathodon in 1999. [3]
Name Age Location Genera and species Adaffa Formation [22]: Early Campanian Saudi Arabia Prognathodon sp. [22]; Plioplatecarpinae indet. [22]Amminadav Formation [23]: Early Cenomanian
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Thelodonti ('feeble-teeth') are a group of small, extinct jawless fishes with distinctive scales instead of large plates of armour. There is much debate over whether the group of Palaeozoic fish known as the Thelodonti (formerly coelolepids [11]) represent a monophyletic grouping, or disparate stem groups to the major lines of jawless and jawed ...
Prognathodon currii There is only one named species of Clidastes that is valid, C. propython . Clidastes iguanavus Cope, 1868 was the original type species, but the ICZN was petitioned to make C. propython the new type species by virtue of that species being based on diagnostic remains, which it did vis-à-vis Opinion 1750 (1993).
Thalassotitan ("titan of the seas") is an extinct genus of large mosasaurs (a group of extinct marine lizards) that lived during the late Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous period in what is now Morocco, around 67 to 66 million years ago.
Kianda was traditionally worshipped by throwing offerings such as food and clothing into the sea. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Every year the Luanda Island Feast is held to honor the deity. [ 4 ] The mosasaur Prognathodon kianda , found in Angola, was named after her.