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GLOBIDENTINES
Nick Longrich wrote...
> I saw something pretty cool the other day- a mosasaur called
> "Globicidens" or something like that. It had these absolutely
> massive jaws-no, I mean really heavy- and teeth like one-inch
> ball-bearings, sometimes with a tiny nipple in the middle.
_Globidens_. A very special, malacophagous (=durophagous) mosasaur
that probably fed on bivalves. Ask Mike Everhart - he has photos of
specimens on his web site: I have seen specimens in Maastricht. There
is another ball-toothed mosasaur, _Igdamanosaurus_, from
Nigeria, but if I remember correctly this is not regarded as closely
related to the globidentines. Nick has a point - most other
durophagores have flattened teeth that form a 'pavement'.
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