Genus
Valid Extinct

Hainosaurus

Dollo 1885

Tylosaurus is a genus of russellosaurine mosasaur that lived about 92 to 66 million years ago during the Turonian to Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found primarily around North Atlantic Ocean including in North America, Europe, and Africa.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
16
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Tylosaurinae Subfamily
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Hainosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 16 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇸🇪 Sweden
5
🇩🇪 Germany
3
🇫🇷 France
2
🇵🇱 Poland
2
🇷🇺 Russia
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
🇦🇶 Antarctica
1
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
Geological formations
Opoka
2
Vaals
1
Elrhaz
1
Kopinge Sandstone
1
Pierre Shale
1
Craie de Meudon
1
López de Bertodano
1
Couche III
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
3
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
13
Species (2)
Hainosaurus boubker 72 Ma
Hainosaurus neumilleri 84 Ma
Images 10
Bibliography
Original description
J. J., Jr. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
Bibliography (10)
T. H. Rempert, B. P. Martens, and A. P. M. Vinkeles Melchers. 2022. First Record of a Tylosaurine Mosasaur from the Latest Cretaceous Phosphates of Morocco. Open Journal of Geology 12:883-906 DOI ↗
J. J. Hornung, M. Reich, and U. Frerichs. 2018. A mosasaur fauna (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Alcheringa 42(4):543-559 DOI ↗
J. J. Hornung and M. Reich. 2015. Tylosaurine mosasaurs (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Germany. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94(1):55-71 DOI ↗
N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 DOI ↗
J. E. Martin. 2007. A North American Hainosaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of southern South Dakota. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:199-207 DOI ↗
J. W. M. Jagt, J. Lindgren, and M. Machalski, A. Radwankski. 2005. New records of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of central Poland. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):303-306 DOI ↗
J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Stratigraphic ranges of mosasaurs in Belgium and the Netherlands (Late Cretaceous) and cephalopod-based correlations with North America. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):283-301 DOI ↗
J. Lindgren. 2005. The first record of Hainosaurus (Reptilia: Mosasauridae) from Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 79(6):1157-1165 DOI ↗
A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2004. On the occurrence of a giant flying reptile (Pterosauria) in the terminal Late Cretaceous of the Lower Volga Region. Paleontological Journal 38(6):669-671
E. W. A. Mulder. 1999. Transatlantic latest Cretaceous mosasaurs (Reptilia, Lacertilia) from the Maastrichtian type area and New Jersey. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:281-300