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    when he named it Mosasaurus in reference to its origin in fossil deposits near the Meuse River. The exact affinities of Mosasaurus as a squamate remain...
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  • saskatchwanensis. The dentary is robust, though not as strongly built as it is in Mosasaurus, Prognathodon, or Plesiotylosaurus. The ventral margin of the dentary...
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    This research history of Mosasaurus documents the historical, cultural, and scientific accounts surrounding the Mosasaurus, a genus of extinct aquatic...
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    Maƫstricht was not actually named Mosasaurus ('Meuse reptile') until 1822 and not given its full species name, Mosasaurus hoffmannii, until 1829. Several...
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  • design for the Mosasaurus and ILM refined it. The animators referenced crocodiles for the creature's swimming pattern. The Mosasaurus was originally designed...
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  • Formation of Niger. The type specimen was first described in 1930 as Mosasaurus nigeriensis, but subsequent remains revealed a highly unique set of adaptations...
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    defined as all descendants of the last common ancestor of the mosasaur Mosasaurus hoffmannii and dolichosaurs Dolichosaurus, Coniasaurus, and Adriosaurus...
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    anceps) were closer to Mosasaurus than to Prognathodon and that Liodon should perhaps instead by synonymized with Mosasaurus (though no formal proposal...
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  • Commons has media related to Coleophora mosasaurus. Wikispecies has information related to Coleophora mosasaurus. Notes on Coleophora (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae)...
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    oldest known Mosasaurus, but further preparation uncovered features indicating a new intermediate genus and species between Mosasaurus and the more primitive...
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    medium-sized taxa (Clidastes, 6+ meters), to the largest of the mosasaurs (Mosasaurus hoffmannii) potentially reaching about 13 m in length. Many genera of...
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    genus Mosasaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) (PDF) (PhD). University of Alberta. doi:10.7939/R31N7XZ1K. Mike Everhart (May 14, 2010). "Mosasaurus hoffmanni-The...
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    initial lift hill, and the boats are taken to the Mosasaurus Aquarium Observatory, encountering a Mosasaurus. Guests then go to a lush, tropical area, where...
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    pectoral girdle is robust and most similar with that in P. overtoni and Mosasaurus conodon, albeit more square-shaped than the latter. The two bones making...
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    turtles, ammonites, nautili, and bivalves. Like its larger relative, Mosasaurus, Globidens had a robustly built skull with tightly-articulating jaws and...
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    hofmanni and Suyckerbuyk's turtle, Glyptochelone suyckerbuyki. A significant mosasaurus skull was taken by the French during the Siege of Maastricht, and has...
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  • resort, and attack everyone, including Zara who is then devoured by a Mosasaurus. Zach and Gray find Owen and Claire at the resort as armed personnel shoot...
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    World attractions, such as Gyrosphere Valley, T-Rex Kingdom, and the Mosasaurus show. The posters also show attractions that exist at Islands of Adventure...
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    Mosasauridae, as the sister taxon to a clade containing Moanasaurus, Rikisaurus, Mosasaurus spp., and Plotosaurus. The 50% majority-rule consensus results of their...
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  • Teratosaurus, Trachodon; under Dinosaur, Aquatic: Archelon, Dinichthys, Mosasaurus, Nothosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Temnodontosaurus) Allosaurus, Anchisaurus...
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  • classified as part of the Mosasaurinae subfamily, alongside genera like Mosasaurus and Prognathodon. Clidastes is known from deposits ranging in age from...
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    like Plotosaurus, having unique adaptations to fast swimming speeds, or Mosasaurus, which is among the largest known marine reptiles. The tribe was erected...
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    contains are sea urchins, belemnites, ammonites and sea reptiles such as Mosasaurus. In southern Europe, the Cretaceous is usually a marine system consisting...
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    "crocodile-like" marine reptile, which eventually came to be known as the mosasaurid Mosasaurus of the Cretaceous period. The first half of the 19th century saw geological...
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    "Antediluvian monster", a Mosasaurus discovered in a Maastricht limestone quarry, 1770 (contemporary engraving)...
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  • (incorrectly classified as a hadrosaur) Parasaurolophus ("Overlander"/Guard) Mosasaurus (more crocodilian in appearance than in the fossil record, with arms and...
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    2010 and 2022. In 1927, a fragmentary skull of the giant marine reptile Mosasaurus hoffmanni was found in the Late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) deposits...
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    that the teeth he assigned to Leiodon were more reminiscent of those of Mosasaurus than any other reptile and in 1851 placed both genera in the new clade...
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  • Pterodaustro, Frankie Fruitafossor, Troodon Waiter Mark Acheson as Marvin Mosasaurus Michael Adamthwaite as Jess Hesperornis, Reggie Raptorex Ashleigh Ball...
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  • the Mosasaurus devours their submersible. The Tyrannosaurus attacks the helicopter, but the surviving members get away with the sample. The Mosasaurus escapes...
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