Polyptychodon

Polyptychodon (meaning 'many-folded tooth') is a genus of pliosaurid found in Middle-Late Cretaceous marine deposits in southern England, France and Argentina.

[2] The type species, P. interruptus is known from an isolated tooth from the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group of southern England.

[1] Owen described a second nominal species of the genus, P. continuus, from an isolated tooth collected in the Hythe Formation of Maidstone, Kent.

[3] Comparison between Albian-age isolated vertebrae from marine deposits in France and Kronosaurus suggested a size of approximately 7 metres (23 ft) for a Polyptychodon-like brachaucheniine pliosaurid.

[4] The species Polyptychodon patagonicus (Ameghino, 1893), based on crocodile teeth discovered in Argentina, shares the same genus name.

Restoration of P. interruptus
Polyptychocon hudsoni holotype SMU 60313 skull parts (top), skull roof in profile showing extent of the parietal crest. (bottom).