Liodon
Liodon is a dubious genus of mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous, known from fragmentary fossils discovered in St James' Pit, England and possibly also the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco. Though dubious and of uncertain phylogenetic affinities, Liodon was historically a highly important taxon in mosasaur systematics, being one of the genera on which the family Mosasauridae was based.
| Liodon Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Drawings of teeth and jaw elements referred to Liodon anceps by Richard Owen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Mosasaurinae |
| Genus: | †Liodon Agassiz, 1846 |
| Species: | †L. anceps |
| Binomial name | |
| †Liodon anceps (Owen, 1841) | |
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