FIRST RECORD OF THE MOSASAUR PLATECARPUS COPE, 1869 FROM SOUTH AMERICA AND ITS SYSTEMATIC IMPLICATIONS

• Main Authors: Peter Bengtson, Johan Lindgren
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Platecarpus; Mosasauridae; Turonian; Coniacian; Cretaceous; Sergipe; Brazil. RESUMO Sªo descritas duas coroas dentais marginais; provavelmente descartadas; do mosassauro Platecarpus sp; provenientes do Turoniano superior e Turoniano-Coniaciano da bacia de Sergipe; Nordeste do; Nordeste; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.595.9276; http://www.sbpbrasil.org/revista/edicoes/8_1/bengtson%26lindgren.pdf

ABSTRACT Two isolated, presumably shed, marginal tooth-crowns of the mosasaur Platecarpus sp. are described from the upper Turonian and Turonian-Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Sergipe Basin in northeastern Brazil. They represent the first record of the genus from South America, thus extending t...