Primer hallazgo de Mosasauridae (Squamata) en el Maastrichtiense (Cretacico final) de Alicante (Comunidad de Valencia, Levante Español)

• Autores: Nathalie Bardet, José Francisco Baeza Carratalá, Verónica Díez Díaz, Ángel Carbonell, Manuel García Ávila
• Localización: Estudios geológicos, ISSN 0367-0449, Vol. 69, Nº 1, 2013, págs. 97-104
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Although the mosasaurid genus Prognathodon is known worldwide during the latest Cretaceous (Campanian- Maastrichtian), we report here its first occurrence in the Eastern area of the Iberian Peninsula. It was previously known from coeval levels of the Basque Country. The specimen from Castalla (Alicante) corresponds to a pterygoid tooth. Though it cannot be precisely determined at the specific level, the tooth belongs to a Prognathodon species with �slender� teeth such as P. compressidens, P. sectorius and P.

    mosasauroides, all known in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of Europe, or P. kianda from the Maastrichtian of Angola.