Plioplatecarpus was a mosasaur, a type of marine reptile related to lizards and snakes. It was not a dinosaur. Plioplatecarpus lived during the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found in North America, Europe, Antarctica, Africa and South America.
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Plioplatecarpus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12
- A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2004. Carnivorous dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) from the Maastrichtian of the Volga-Don interfluve, Russia. Paleontological Journal 38(1):78-82
- D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs.. New York: Columbia University.
