Mosasaurus
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Mosasaurus ("lizard o the Meuse River") is a genus o mosasaurs, extinct carnivorous aquatic squamates. It existit in the Maastrichtian age o the late Cretaceous period, atween aboot 70 an 66 million years aby, in wastren Europe an North Americae.
Mosasaurus | |
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Munted skelet cast o M. hoffmanni, Maastricht Naitural History Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | Squamata |
Superfaimily: | †Mosasauroidea |
Faimily: | †Mosasauridae |
Tribe: | †Mosasaurini |
Genus: | †Mosasaurus Conybeare, 1822 |
Teep species | |
†Mosasaurus hoffmanni Mantell, 1829
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Species | |
†M. missouriensis (Harlan, 1834) | |
Synonyms | |
Batrachiosaurus Harlan, 1839 |
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