Globidens

Globin Dens in a live reconstruction

• North America
• Western Europe ( Belgium)
• Northwest Africa (Morocco )

Globin Dens is a genus of mosasaur from the Upper Cretaceous time. Gilmore published in 1912 the first scientific description of the taxon.

Fossil localities

Fossil remains of the mosasaur were 1912 first then found in Alabama near Selma, in other regions of North America. Later discoveries followed in Belgium and Morocco. Probably the species was distributed worldwide.

Features

Globin Dens reached a length of approximately six meters. It differs from most other mosasaurs by its rounded teeth ( globin Dens = "Bullet Tooth "). Similar teeth also had the smaller Carinodens belgicus. On the jaw fragments were found two types of teeth, spherical, fairly smooth teeth and those with a corrugated surface and a big lead in the vicinity of the tooth root.

It is believed that, may have to feed and ammonites the lizards of shells.

Species

• G. alabamaensis ( type species ) Gilmore, 1912
• G. dakotensis Russell, 1975
• G. phosphaticus Bardet et al., 2004

Only by G. alabamaensis skeletal material is found, the remaining species are known only by dental findings.