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Stelladens
| Stelladens Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Holotype teeth | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Mosasaurinae |
| Genus: | †Stelladens Longrich et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †S. mysteriosus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stelladens mysteriosus Longrich et al., 2023
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Stelladens (meaning "star tooth") is an extinct genus of mosasaurine mosasaurs from the Late Cretaceous Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco. The genus contains a single species, S. mysteriosus.[1]
- ^ Longrich, Nicholas R.; Jalil, Nour-Eddine; Pereda-Suberbiola, Xabier; Bardet, Nathalie (2023). "Stelladens mysteriosus: A Strange New Mosasaurid (Squamata) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Morocco". Fossils. 1 (1): 2–14. doi:10.3390/fossils1010002. hdl:10810/64193. ISSN 2813-6284.
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