Amphekepubis
| Amphekepubis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Genus: | †Amphekepubis Mehl, 1930 |
| Species: | †A. johnsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Amphekepubis johnsoni Mehl, 1930
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Amphekepubis is a
claystones) apparently from the San Felipe Formation, which corresponds to the boundary between the ages of Coniacian and Santonian in the early Late Cretaceous.[2][3] Amphekepubis is classified within the Mosasaurinae subfamily of mosasaurs.[4]
It has been suggested that the age of the fossils assigned to Amphekepubis may be more recent and that its remains might even belong to the genus Mosasaurus;[5][6] some recent reviews have simply assigned its type specimen to Mosasaurus.[3]
References
- ^ "†Amphekepubis Mehl 1930". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Mehl, M. G. (1930). "A new genus of mosasaurs from Mexico, and notes on the pelvic girdle of Platecarpus". Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific Laboratories. 29 (10): 383–400.
- ^ S2CID 132009809.
- ISBN 978-1-4615-2878-4, retrieved 2022-07-13
- ^ Buchy, Marie-Céline; Eberhard Frey; Wolfgang Stinnesbeck; José Guadalupe López-Oliva (2007). "Cranial anatomy of a Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from north-east Mexico" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 24 (1): 89–103. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
- JSTOR 55929.
