Saurodon (from , 'lizard' and 'tooth') is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous.
Saurodon (from , 'lizard' and 'tooth') is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous.
Saurodon leanus is known to occur as early as the Santonian to the early Campanian. It was a large, predatory fish, with a length of more than . S. elongatus from the late Campanian or early Maastrichtian of Calcari di Melissano, Italy had length only around . Potentially the last record of Saurodon is from the late Maastrichtian of the Muwaqqar Chalk-Marl Formation of Jordan.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).