Globidens(?) timorensis E. VON HUENE, 1935: not a durophagous mosasaur, but an enigmatic Triassic ichthyosaur

In 1935, ERIKA VON HUENE described and illustrated three isolated sauropsid tooth crowns from Timor, tentatively attributing them to a new species of Late Cretaceous durophagous marine squamate (Mosasauridae), Globidens(?) timorensis. Based on this scanty record and a fourth additional tooth crown, this taxon has been referenced in papers discussing the global distribution of Late Cretaceous mosasaurs. However, the previous taxonomic assignment has rarely been questioned. Here, we demonstrate these specimens to be of Triassic age and to have affinities to the ichthyosaurian genera Tholodus VON MEYER, 1848 (emend. VON MEYER, 1851) and Xinminosaurus JIANG, MOTANI, HAO, SCHMITZ, RIEPPEL, SUN & SUN, 2008.