Reconstructed S. leanus skeleton, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, Colorado
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
†Ichthyodectiformes
Family:
†Saurodontidae
Genus:
†Saurodon Hays, 1830
Saurodon (from Greek: σαῦροςsaûros, 'lizard' and Greek: ὀδούςodoús 'tooth')[1] is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform fish from the Cretaceous.
Saurodon leanus is known to occur as early as the late Coniacian through the Santonian, in the Late Cretaceous. It was a large, predatory fish, with a length of more than 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in).[2]S. elongatus from Calcari di Melissano had length only around 90 cm (35 in).[3]
^Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 153. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^"SAUROCEPHALUS, SAURODON AND PROSAURODON". 3 April 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
^"Volume 36, suppl. (2014) - Il mare nella Pietra". siba-ese.unisalento.it. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
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