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    Mosasaur (redirect from Mosasauridae)
    'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Their first fossil remains were...
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  • parallel bronchi of whales. Tylosaurus is classified within the family Mosasauridae in the superfamily Mosasauroidea. The genus is the type genus of its...
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    junior synonym of M. hoffmannii.: 300  As the type genus of the family Mosasauridae and the subfamily Mosasaurinae, Mosasaurus is a member of the order Squamata...
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  • PMID 39224151. Lindgren, J. (2005). "The first record of Hainosaurus (Reptilia: Mosasauridae) from Sweden". Journal of Paleontology. 79 (6): 1157–1165. doi:10...
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  • comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the family Mosasauridae or the parent clade Mosasauroidea, excluding purely vernacular terms...
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    grouped within their own separate families, the Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae respectively. However, phylogenetic studies have since found plesiopedal...
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    tribe in the Mosasaurinae subfamily. Globidens belongs to the family Mosasauridae, which consists of several genera of predatory marine lizards of various...
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    the group into two families, the Mosasauridae and the "Plioplatecarpidae". In this early taxonomy, the Mosasauridae contained the genera Clidastes, Mosasaurus...
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    including air-sacs akin to those of birds. Aigialosauridae Helodermatidae Mosasauridae Necrosauridae Welton LJ, Siler CD, Bennett D, Diesmos A, Duya MR, Dugay...
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    P. Street (2016). A re-assessment of the genus Mosasaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) (PDF) (PhD). University of Alberta. doi:10.7939/R31N7XZ1K. Mike Everhart...
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    "Kaikaifilu hervei gen. et sp. nov., a new large mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica". Cretaceous Research. 70:...
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    ("many teeth") is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the Mosasauridae. Pluridens is placed in the subfamily Halisaurinae with the genera Phosphorosaurus...
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  • Wiffen, J. (1980). "Moanasaurus, a new genus of marine reptile (Family Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Island, New Zealand". New Zealand...
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  • Tantawy, A. A.; Abu El-Kheir, G. A. (2023). "A new species of Halisaurus (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the lower Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the...
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    lizards) Family Helodermatidae (Gila monsters and beaded lizards) Family †Mosasauridae (marine lizards) Lizards have frequently evolved convergently, with multiple...
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    S2CID 85513442. Garvey, S.T. (2020). "A New High-latitude Tylosaurus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Canada with Unique Dentition". Cincinnati, Ohio: University of...
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    and other prey. Although the skeleton is primitive compared to other Mosasauridae in many respects, halisaurines had the distinctive hypocercal tail of...
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    the Clidastidae (now defunct but including only Clidastes) and the Mosasauridae (including Macrosaurus [?=Tylosaurus], Mosasaurus, and Platecarpus)....
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    Several different genera representing the four different subfamilies of Mosasauridae: the Tylosaurinae, Plioplatecarpinae, Mosasaurinae, and Halisaurinae...
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    exquisitely preserved specimen of Mosasaurus missouriensis (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Campanian of the Bearpaw Formation, western Canada, and...
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    Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Clade: †Mosasauria Family: †Mosasauridae Subfamily: †Mosasaurinae Genus: †Stelladens Longrich et al., 2023 Species:...
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  • Mosasauroidea Aigialosauridae Opetiosaurus Aigialosaurus Portunatasaurus Mosasauridae Kaganaias Mosasaurinae Carinodens Clidastes Dallasaurus Globidens Kaikaifilu...
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    of the two other main sea reptile groups, the Ichthyosauria and the Mosasauridae. She concluded that plesiosaurs were about twenty percent slower than...
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  • mosasaurs, calling it "the most advanced genus yet described in the family Mosasauridae." He named this genus Kolposaurus, a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek...
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    placed within the subfamily Mosasaurinae, "well within [the family] Mosasauridae", and that, despite its small size and the "primitive" condition of its...
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    in mosasaur systematics, being one of the genera on which the family Mosasauridae was based. Liodon anceps was first described as "Leiodon anceps" by Richard...
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    sp. (Squamata: Mosasauridae), nueva especie del Cretácico Superior de Colombia" [Eonatator coellensis nov. sp. (Squamata: Mosasauridae), a new species...
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    Aigialosauridae Mosasauridae...
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  • within the Mosasauridae and it is often left out of phylogenetic analyses, although most authors agree that Goronyosaurus belonged to Mosasauridae. Goronyosaurus...
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  • 24 cm (9.4 in). Megalania – the largest land lizard to have ever lived Mosasauridae, an extinct family in the order Squamata which includes the largest lizards...
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