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Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:14:37respectively. However, phylogenetic studies have since found plesiopedal mosasauroids to be a non-monophyletic group, with some taxa nestled within the mosasaurids...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:06:28Richard J (ed.). "The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids". PLOS ONE. 7 (12) e51781. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
Click to read more »List of mosasaur genera
Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:59:43established names, and genera that are no longer considered mosasauroid. Non-mosasaurid mosasauroids shall be noted as such. The list currently includes 92...
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Jumat, 2025-10-03 11:55:04Portunatasaurus ("Dugi Otok lizard") is a genus of mosasauroid squamate that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Croatia. It contains...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 05:41:46a basal mosasauroid from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. Along with Russellosaurus, Dallasaurus is one of the two oldest mosasauroid taxa currently...
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Kamis, 2025-10-02 06:25:45Tethysaurus is an extinct genus of tethysaurine mosasauroid from the Early Turonian (Late Cretaceous) period. The only species is Tethysaurus nopcsai...
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Senin, 2025-09-22 22:54:47monophyletic group and by others as an adaptive grade within the basal mosasauroids, recent molecular and morphological data suggests that they are the oldest...
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Sabtu, 2025-10-04 13:16:38Pannoniasaurus is an extinct genus of tethysaurine mosasauroid known from the Late Cretaceous Csehbánya Formation and Ajka Coal Formation (Santonian stage)...
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Jumat, 2026-01-23 23:39:20complete specimen measuring 65 cm (2.13 ft) long. Another primitive mosasauroid, Opetiosaurus, was suggested to represent a second species of Aigialosaurus...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:57:09Komensaurus is a genus of basal aigialosaurid mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous period. It was found at Komen in Slovenia in limestone dating from...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:13:37(1999-01-01). "Squamate phylogeny and the relationships of snakes and mosasauroids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125 (1): 115–147. doi:10...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:42:47restoration showing it as a mosasaur egg Egg fossil classification Oofamily: †Mosasauroid Oogenus: †Antarcticoolithus Legendre et al., 2020 Oospecies †A. bradyi...
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Minggu, 2026-01-25 02:47:10Mesoleptos was a genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous period of Europe and the Middle East. Paleontology portal List of mosasaurs Oceans of Kansas...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:57:07Haasiasaurus is an extinct genus of early mosasauroid. The genus contains a single species, H. gittelmani, which was found in Cenomanian to Turonian (Upper...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:56:31Russellosaurus is an extinct genus of tethysaurine mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous of North America. The genus was described from a skull discovered...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:57Ilaria Paparella; Paulina Jimenez-Huidobro; Michael W. Caldwell (2017). "Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on...
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Sabtu, 2025-08-16 03:47:36necessarily more closely related to each other than either is to more derived mosasauroids, suggesting not only that Opetiosaurus is a valid genus, but also calling...
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Senin, 2026-04-20 11:12:52monstersaurian, Asprosaurus has been subsequently suggested to be a probable mosasauroid, an extinct group of marine lizards during the Late Cretaceous. The holotype...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:49:54They do not exhibit the bone mass increase found in juvenile primitive mosasauroids to support buoyancy associated with a lifestyle in shallow water, implying...
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Rabu, 2026-01-28 23:27:41Madzia and Cau (2017). Inferring ‘weakspots’ in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature. PeerJ5:e3782;DOI10.7717/peerj.3782 v t e...
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Jumat, 2026-03-06 14:51:20Attila Ősi (2012). "The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids". PLOS ONE. 7 (12) e51781. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 23:19:26contemporaneous pliosaurs and polycotylids by examining the rates of evolution in mosasauroids like Tylosaurus (specifically T. proriger, T. nepaeolicus, and T. bernardi)...
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Rabu, 2026-04-15 10:54:23generally serpentine body plan of members of the group. Cope wrote, "In the mosasauroids, we almost realize the fictions of snake-like dragons and sea-serpents...
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Selasa, 2024-06-18 12:28:54Vallecillosaurus is an extinct genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous period, that lived in Mexico, in the state of Nuevo León. It was a relatively...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:40Fieldiana Geology. 33 (13): 235–256. Gilmore, Charles W. (1912). "A new mosasauroid reptile from the Cretaceous of Alabama" (PDF). Proceedings of the United...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:21:11Yaguarasaurus is an extinct genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) period of Colombia, South America. The remains discovered (an articulated...
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Senin, 2026-05-11 04:43:02at this time, against which the sit-and-wait ambush strategies of the mosasauroids proved superior. This model thus emphasised evolutionary stagnation,...
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Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:22:31(2017). "Inferring 'weak spots' in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature". PeerJ. 5 e3782. doi:10.7717/peerj.3782. ISSN 2167-8359...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-14 10:57:42(12 December 2007). "A new basal mosasauroid from the Cenomanian (U. Cretaceous) of Slovenia with a review of mosasauroid phylogeny and evolution". Journal...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 03:15:04Plesiosaurus described from the Conway Formation Eidolosaurus Cretaceous A mosasauroid outside of the mosasaurid family [citation needed] "Hector's ichthyosaur"...
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Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:44:33Richard J (ed.). "The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids". PLOS ONE. 7 (12) e51781. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
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Rabu, 2026-04-15 11:29:36nested within basal mosasauroids as a third group alongside mosasaurs and aigialosaurs, or as the sister group to the mosasauroids. The difficulties in...
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Kamis, 2024-08-08 18:28:14Eidolosaurus was a genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous period of Slovenia. Paleontology portal List of mosasaurs Oceans of Kansas v t e...
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Rabu, 2025-01-22 10:44:16Adriosaurus suessi, A. tommasinii was found to be similar to coniasaurs, mosasauroids, and a sister taxon to modern snakes in 2010. The primary portion of...
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Rabu, 2025-10-01 22:17:58Mycomorphoolithus Oofamily Krokolithidae Bauruoolithus Krokolithes Suchoolithus Mosasauroid Antarcticoolithus Dinosauroid-spherulitic Placoolithus Sphaerovum Stromatoolithus...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 22:45:18indeterminate lizard and a varanoid form which is probably a freshwater mosasauroid), a probable enantiornithe bird, an indeterminate dromaeosaurid (known...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 10:22:55biogeography of the Eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from 'Ein Yabrud, Israel". National Science Museum Monographs. 15: 259–290...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:54:45(2017). "Inferring 'weak spots' in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature". PeerJ. 5 e3782. doi:10.7717/peerj.3782. PMC 5602675. PMID 28929018...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:53:10further taxa described since Russell's 1967 monograph (particularly basal mosasauroids, such as Aigialosaurus). Bell recovered Prognathodon within the Mosasaurinae...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:57:11platyspondylus). Paleontology portal Marsh, O.C. (1869). "Notice on some new mosasauroid reptiles from the Greensand of New Jersey". American Journal of Science...
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Sabtu, 2025-10-04 06:53:30December 2012). "The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids" (PDF). PLOS ONE. 7 (12) e51781. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
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Jumat, 2026-03-06 15:35:18efficiency by improving the flow of water across the body. The early mosasauroid Vallecillosaurus also preserves body scales, but they are larger and...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:03:52saurosphargids, ichthyosauriforms, sauropterygians, pleurosaurids or mosasauroids, as well as mammalian cetaceans or sirenians). The family has a wide...
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Senin, 2025-04-14 01:05:16is an extinct genus of small, aquatic varanoid lizard related to the mosasauroids. The only known specimen is from the Late Cretaceous of the Judean Hills...
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Minggu, 2025-10-05 23:57:05Saint Peter near Maastricht. It is the second documented discovery of mosasauroid fossils and was found between the 1770s and early 1780s. It was brought...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:53flippers are longer than the skull. This feature is not seen in any other mosasauroid with paddle-like limbs. Furthermore, the hind flippers are even larger...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:57:05Ilaria; Jimenez-Huidobro, Paulina; Caldwell, Michael W. (2017-05-03). "Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on...
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Senin, 2025-11-10 09:32:37mid-Cretaceous snake-like lizards, paleontological research linked snakes to mosasauroid lizards which once lived in marine environments, while zoologists linked...
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Senin, 2025-09-29 19:31:42indicate that the individual experienced a fatal predatory attack by a mosasauroid. Sepkoski Online Mammites at Fossilworks.org Patarroyo, 2016, p.41 Patarroyo...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:58:12Ilaria; Jimenez-Huidobro, Paulina; Caldwell, Michael W. (2017-05-03). "Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 00:52:22plesiosaur elements instead. Dolichosaurids became rare after OAE2, whereas mosasauroid diversity bloomed in its aftermath. Tethysuchians experienced a significant...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:38maintained in various subsequent studies. A 2017 phylogenetic analysis of the mosasauroids used several analyses to find the most valid classifications, as if a...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:36:38BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BASAL MOSASAUROID FROM 'EIN YABRUD, ISRAEL". National Science Museum Monographs. 15. N...
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Jumat, 2026-02-13 08:16:41that together measure 25 cm (9.8 in) in length. It have features of the mosasauroids, with three vertebrae with haemal arches and procoelic centra, that suggest...
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Kamis, 2022-12-15 22:28:08Czech Republic. Iserosaurus was originally described as a new taxon of mosasauroid by Fritsch (1905) on the basis of a disarticulated skeleton from Turonian-age...
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Selasa, 2026-03-10 14:55:24017. ISSN 0195-6671. Gale, A. S.; Kennedy, W. J.; Martill, D. (2017). "Mosasauroid predation on an ammonite – Pseudaspidoceras – from the Early Turonian...
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Rabu, 2026-03-25 17:24:06(2012-12-19). "The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids". PLOS ONE. 7 (12) e51781. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
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Selasa, 2025-05-27 13:12:58M.A. (1999). "Squamate phylogeny and the relationships of snakes and mosasauroids" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125 (1): 115–147....
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Senin, 2026-02-23 13:15:25the cladogram below: Páramo-Fonseca1, María Eurídice (March 1, 2012). "Mosasauroids from Colombia". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 183 (2):...
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Rabu, 2025-06-25 05:05:52Jr., Kenneth R. Barnes and Michael J. Polcyn (2013) Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the BigBend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:04:53Bardet, N.; Houssaye, A.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Valentin, X. (2015). "Mosasauroid (Squamata) discovery in the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) continental...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:42(2017). Inferring "weak spots" in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature Archived 2017-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. PeerJ 5:e3782...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 19:02:11Daniel Madzia; Andrea Cau (2020). "Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas"...
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Senin, 2026-04-13 02:00:17marchesetti(Aigialosauridae), with a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of mosasauroids and varanoids". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15 (3): 516–531....
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Senin, 2026-01-26 09:43:17Ilaria; Jimenez-Huidobro, Paulina; Caldwell, Michael W. (2017-05-03). "Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:34usually found in mammals and archosaurs. The marginal tooth rows in mosasauroids like Clidastes are found on the premaxilla, maxilla and the dentary....
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Jumat, 2026-05-08 16:02:26study on the diversification of feeding and locomotory strategies of mosasauroids is published by Cross et al. (2022). A study on the evolution of morphofunctional...
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Kamis, 2026-04-09 01:06:19M.W.; Lee, M.S.Y. (2001). "Live birth in Cretaceous marine lizards (mosasauroids)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 268 (1484): 2397–240. doi:10.1098/rspb...
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Rabu, 2026-04-15 09:41:26Attila Ősi (2012). "The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids". PLOS ONE. 7 (12) e51781. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
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Kamis, 2026-01-29 02:18:54simoliophiid snake, notable for its hindlimbs Mesoleptos M. zendrinii A basal mosasauroid Pachyrhachis P. problematicus A simoliophiid snake, notable for its hindlimbs...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-11 21:06:17(2021), who reinterpret this squamate as a dolichosaur. A yaguarasaurine mosasauroid is reported from the Cenomanian-Turonian beds of Coahuila (Mexico) by...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:39:52"Description of a new basal mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous of Croatia, with comments on the evolution of the mosasauroid forelimb". Journal of Vertebrate...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:41:53Simões et al. (2017). A study on the robustness of the hypotheses about mosasauroid phylogenetic relationships and a reevaluation of the dataset from the...
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Minggu, 2026-03-08 00:52:19Mosasauridae), a new species from the Upper Cretaceous of Colombia 2012 – Mosasauroids from Colombia 2007 – The first Late Pleistocene record of Kinosternon...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:42:05Vasilyan & Bukhsianidze (2020). A study on the evolutionary history of mosasauroids, comparing their evolutionary rates and traits to those of plesiosaurs...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:39:27amnhophilis to be likely junior synonym of V. marathonensis. A basal mosasauroid specimen including a rib and a vertebra, representing a larger individual...
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