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Coniasaurus

Synonyms: Coniosaurus

Wikipedia Abstract

Coniasaurus is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous marine squamates that range in age from Cenomanian to Santonian. It was first described by Richard Owens in 1850 from lower Cenomanian chalk deposits in southeast England. Two species have been described from this genus: C.crassidens (Owen, 1850), known from Cenomanian to Santonian deposits from southeast England, Germany and North America, and C.gracilodens (Caldwell, 1999) from the Cenomanian of southeast England. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that Coniasaurus is a sister group to the Mosasauroidea within the Pythonomorpha clade.
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0