Saurodon
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| Saurodon Temporal range: Cretaceous
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| Reconstructed S. leanus skeleton, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, Colorado | |
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Saurodon
Hays, 1830
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Saurodon ("Lizard Tooth") is an extinct genus of Ichthyodectid fish from the Cretaceous.
Saurodon leanus is known to occur as early as the late Coniacian through the Santonian, in the Late Cretaceous. It was a large, predatory fish, with a length of more than 2.5 m.[1]
Species
File:Saurodon leanusDB15.jpg
S. leanus
File:Saurodon Clean.png
Saurodon leanus left lateral view of 3D reconstruction in the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, Colorado
- Saurodon elongatus Taverne & Bronzi, 1999 [2]
- Saurodon leanus Hays, 1830
Sources
- Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson
References
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- ↑ Taverne, L. and P. Bronzi. 1999. Les poissons cretaces de Nardò. 9°. Note complementaire sur le saurodontinae (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes): Saurodon elongatus, sp. nov. Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca. VIII. Memor. Vol. Lorenso Sorbini, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, pages 105-116. (Illustration of a nearly complete fish)
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