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Definition of Clidastes

Clidastes
Clidastes Cli*das"tes, n. [NL., prob. from Gr. klei`s key.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

Meaning of Clidastes from wikipedia

- Prognathodon. Clidastes is known from deposits ranging in age from the Coniacian to the early Campanian in the United States. Clidastes means "locked...
- Edward Drinker Cope, who thought it was a giant species of Clidastes and named it Clidastes conodon. In 1966, it was reidentified as a species of Mosasaurus...
- intermediate genus and species between Mosasaurus and the more primitive Clidastes. The study, published in 2023, named the species Jormungandr walhallaensis...
- part of the Mosasaurinae subfamily, alongside genera like Mosasaurus and Clidastes. Prognathodon has been recovered from deposits ranging in age from the...
- skeleton, was originally referred to the genus Clidastes by Wiman and then to Halisaurus by Russell. Hence, Clidastes sternbergii became Halisaurus sternbergii...
- a marine bony fish, a possible shark, and another, smaller mosasaur (Clidastes). Mosasaur bones have also been found with shark teeth embedded in them...
- North America. Plesioplatecarpus was originally named by Cope in 1874 as Clidastes planifrons, and later it was re****igned to Platecarpus. The name Plesioplatecarpus...
- third new genus of mosasaur to be described from North America behind Clidastes and Platecarpus and the first in Kansas. The early history of the genus...
- smallest known mosasaurs (Carinodens, 3–3.5 meters), to medium-sized taxa (Clidastes, 6+ meters), to the largest of the mosasaurs (Mosasaurus hoffmannii) potentially...
- Clidastes propython Clidastes liodontus...