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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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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