The newly-discovered species belongs to the mosasaurid genus Carinodens, and was a durophage, adapted for crunching hard-shelled invertebrates. Carinodens is a extinct genus of Cretaceous mosasaurs ...

“Many of the diagnostic features of this species appear to be plesiomorphies, suggesting the persistence of a primitive species of Carinodens into the latest Maastrichtian alongside the more ...