Selmasaurini

Fragments of mosasaur vertebrae. Credit BLM Utah.

Fragments of mosasaur vertebrae (left) and jaw (right). Credit BLM Utah.

Artists’ reconstruction of the living Sarabosaurus dahli swimming with ammonites and fish in southern Utah, 94 million years ago. Artwork by Andrey Atuchin. On June 23, 2023, the following link will go live for more information, www.blm.gov/press-release/94-million-year-old-fossil-prov...

Strict consensus tree from phylogenetic analysis.Consensus tree from three most parsimonious trees (length  = 374, CI  = 0.4679, RI  = 0.7375, HI  = 0.5508) based on taxon-character matrix of 135 morphological characters and 32 taxa of mosasauroids. A: Mosasaurinae. B: Tethysaurinae. C: Halisaurinae. D: Tylosaurinae+Plioplatecarpinae.

Plioplatecarpus, autor - Bogdanov,2006

This is a photograph from my own collection. I am the photographer. Taken 12/6/01, Atlanta, Georgia.

A hypothetical life restoration of Oneirosaurus caballeroi, a basal plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Coniacian beds of Lebrija, Santander of Central Colombia. Body proportions are based off of other related mosasaurs such as Angolasaurus and Yaguarasaurus.

Plioplatecarpus primaevus skull, Oxford University Museum of Natural History .

Reconstructed skeleton of the indeterminate Moroccan Cretaceous plioplatecarpine (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) NMNS005676 F043103, possibly Gavialimimus almaghribensis or an unnamed species (according to Yang, 2022). A collection of the National Museum of Natural Science (Taichung, Taiwan), the specimen was on display in the National Taiwan Museum during a special exhibition.

Representation of the moroccan plioplatecarpinae Khinjaria acuta

Representation of the moroccan plioplatecarpinae Khinjaria acuta