Pluridens was a mosasaur, a type of marine reptile related to lizards and snakes. It was not a dinosaur. Pluridens lived during the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found in Africa.
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Pluridens was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and M. Iarochene, F. Bouyahyaoui, B. Bouya, M. Amaghzaz. 2004. Mosasaurus beaugei Arambourg, 1952 (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco. Geobios 37:315-324
- N. R. Longrich, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and R. A. Pyron, N.-E. Jalil. 2021. The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography. Cretaceous Research 120:104678
- P. M. P. Zaborski. 1982. Campanian and Maastrichtian sphenodiscid ammonites from southern Nigeria. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.) 36(4):303-332
