Named By: | Takuya Konishi & Michael W. Caldwell in 2011 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 80.5-79 Ma |
Location: | Canada, Manitoba, Pembina Mountain - Pierre Shale |
Size: | Uncertain |
Diet: | Carnivore/Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Almost complete skull and mandible (lower jaw) as well as partial post cranial remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Squamata | Mosasauridae | Plioplatecarpini | |
Also known as: | | Plioplatecarpus nichollsae | |
Latoplatecarpus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur known from the Late Cretaceous (early middle Campanian stage) of the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western Interior Basin of North America.