Liodon
| Liodon Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Drawings of teeth and jaw elements referred to Liodon anceps by Richard Owen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Mosasaurinae |
| Genus: | †Liodon Agassiz, 1846 |
| Species: | †L. anceps
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| Binomial name | |
| †Liodon anceps (Owen, 1841)
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Liodon is a dubious genus of mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous, known from fragmentary fossils discovered in St James' Pit, England. Though dubious and of uncertain phylogenetic affinities, Liodon was historically a highly important taxon in mosasaur systematics, being one of the genera on which the family Mosasauridae was based.