Platecarpus ptychodon Arambourg, 1952

Remarks

• Collection of:   Maarten Haverkamp
• Formation:      Formation unknown (Late Maastrichtian rocks)
• Location:         Morocco

General Info

Synonyms (general list of reports-not an exhaustive list!)

• 1952 Platecarpus (?) ptychodon Arambourg

• 1959 Platecarpus ptychodon Arambourg; Arambourg

• 2002 Platecarpus ptychodon Arambourg; Bardet & Suberbiola

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Late Maastrichtian beds of Jordan

• Late Maastrichtian beds of Morocco

Age

• Platecarpus ptychodon Arambourgis very Late Maastrichtian mosasaur (~65 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Jordan

• Morocco

Remarks

       For more information, see:

• Arambourg, C.  1952.  Les Vértebrés Fossiles des Gisements de Phoshates (Maroc-Algérie-Tunisie).  Notes et Mémoires du Division of Mines and Geology, French Morocco 92, 284–286; plate 39, fig's 1–7 and 12.  The holotype is tooth material in fig. 2.

• Bardet, N.; Suberbiola, X. P.  2002.  Marine Reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan:  Palaeobiogeographical Implications.  Geodiversitas 24 (4), 831–839, fig. 2B.