Aptychodon

Name: Aptychodon ‭(‬Unwrinkled tooth‭)‬.
Phonetic: Ap-ty-coe-don.
Named By: Reuss‭ ‬-‭ ‬1855.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Sauropterygia,‭ ‬Plesiosauria.
Species: A. cretaceius (type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: ‭U‬navailable.
Known locations: Czech Republic.
Time period: Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Uncertain.

       As a plesiosaur,‭ ‬Aptychodon would have been a hunter of fish,‭ ‬although it may have been hunted itself by other marine reptiles such as pliosaurs.



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