Platecarpus was a mosasaur, a type of marine reptile related to lizards and snakes. It was not a dinosaur. Platecarpus lived during the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found in North America, Europe, Australia, South America, Africa and Asia.
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Platecarpus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- B. P. Kear, J. A. Long, and J. E. Martin. 2005. A review of Australian mosasaur occurences. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):307-313
- C Neumann, J.W.M Jagt, and RWJM van der Ham. 2002. Rare Campanian echinoids from the Höver and Misburg (Hannover area, Lower Saxony, Germany). Mitteilungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 5:121-139
- D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs.. New York: Columbia University.
