Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family...
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Tylosaurus (redirect from Rhamphosaurus (mosasaur))
Tylosaurus (/ˌtaɪˈloʊˈsɔːrəs/; "knob lizard") is a genus of russellosaurine mosasaur (an extinct group of predatory marine lizards) that lived about 92 to 66...
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Prognathodon (redirect from Brachysaurus (mosasaur))
Prognathodon is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. It is classified as part of the Mosasaurinae subfamily, alongside genera...
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Mosasaurus (category Mosasaurs of North America)
"lizard of the Meuse River") is the type genus (defining example) of the mosasaurs, an extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles. It lived from about 82...
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This list of mosasaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the family Mosasauridae or the parent clade Mosasauroidea...
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This timeline of mosasaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic revisions...
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Jormungandr walhallaensis (redirect from Jormungandr (mosasaur))
nearly-complete skull and partial skeleton. Jormungandr was a medium-sized mosasaur, at around 6–8 metres (20–26 ft) long, and its skeletal anatomy exhibits...
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Platecarpus (redirect from Holosaurus (mosasaur))
("flat wrist") is an extinct genus of aquatic lizards belonging to the mosasaur family, living around 84–81 million years ago during the middle Santonian...
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Pontosaurus (redirect from Hydrosaurus (mosasaur))
known from the Sannine Formation in Lebanon. Paleontology portal List of mosasaurs Michael W. Caldwell (2006). "A new species of Pontosaurus (Squamata, Pythonomorpha)...
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Octávio; Jackbs, Maria Luísa Morais; da Silva Tavares, Tatiana (2006). "New mosasaur material from the Maastrichtian of Angola, with notes on the phylogeny...
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Edelman Fossil Park (section Mosasaurs)
Dr. Lacovara with a Mosasaur vertebra...
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Globidens (category Mosasaurs of North America)
plesiosaurs, and other mosasaurs. In some later mosasaur species, their teeth were modified to rend flesh as well. While many other mosasaurs were capable of...
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Mosasaurinae (category Mosasaurs)
The Mosasaurinae are a subfamily of mosasaurs, a diverse group of Late Cretaceous marine squamates. Members of the subfamily are informally and collectively...
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Plioplatecarpus (category Mosasaurs of North America)
Plioplatecarpus is a genus of mosasaur lizard. Like all mosasaurs, it lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 73-68 million years ago. Plioplatecarpus...
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Plotosaurus (category Mosasaurs of North America)
Plotosaurus ("swimmer lizard") is an extinct genus of mosasaurs who lived during the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) in what is now North America. Only...
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site of the discovery of Mosasaur remains in the 2010s. To commemorate this discovery, there is a sculpture of the Mosasaur at the reservoir. List of...
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Sarabosaurus (category Mosasaurs)
and all other later diverging plioplatecarpines. Sarabosaurus is a small mosasaur, with the type specimen estimated at 3 metres (9.8 ft) in total body length...
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Megapterygius (category Mosasaurs of Asia)
Megapterygius (meaning "large wing") is an extinct genus of mosasaurine mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous Toyajo Formation (Hasegawa Muddy Sandstone Member)...
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Carinodens (redirect from Compressidens (mosasaur))
Carinodens is an extinct genus of Cretaceous marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. "Carinodens" means "keel teeth" and was named in 1969 as a replacement...
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Khinjaria (category Mosasaurs of Africa)
described Khinjaria acuta as a new genus and species of plioplatecarpine mosasaur based on these fossil remains. The generic name, "Khinjaria", derives from...
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Plioplatecarpinae (category Mosasaurs)
Plioplatecarpinae is a subfamily of mosasaurs, a diverse group of Late Cretaceous marine squamates. Members of the subfamily are informally and collectively...
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Ouled Abdoun Basin (section Mosasaurs)
Alessandro (2020-09-28). "A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation...
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news magazine online, Cephalopod fossil articles. William R. Wahl * Mosasaur Bite Marks on an Ammonite. Preservation of an Aborted Attack? Mosasaur diet...
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Cretaceous fossils from Sint-Pietersberg, most notably the skull of a Mosasaur (nicknamed "Bèr") and specimens of Hoffmann's giant turtle, Allopleuron...
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Halisaurus (category Mosasaurs of North America)
Halisaurus is an extinct genus of mosasaur named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1869. The holotype, consisting of an angular and a basicranium fragment discovered...
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Bearpaw Formation (section Mosasaurs)
of shellfish, bony fish, sharks, rays, birds, and marine reptiles like mosasaurs such as Prognathodon overtoni and Plioplatecarpus peckensis, plesiosaurs...
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therefore not to mosasaurs, the proposed ancestor in the aquatic scenario of their evolution. However, more evidence links mosasaurs to snakes than to...
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larger fully aquatic paddle-limbed ("hydropedal") forms commonly known as mosasaurs. These were traditionally grouped within their own separate families,...
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(mainly Mesozoic) archosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. For depictions of avian dinosaurs see Category:Films...
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Phosphorosaurus (category Mosasaurs of Europe)
("phosphate lizard") is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. Phosphorosaurus is classified within the Halisaurinae subfamily...
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