Classification
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian
(72.2–66 Ma)
2
Campanian
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Coniacian
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Turonian
(93.9–89.8 Ma)
2
Synonyms (1)
Platecarpus ptychodus
nomen dubium, species not entered Russellosaurina
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
M. J. Polcyn and G. L. Bell. 2005. Russellosaurus coheni n. gen., n. sp., a 92 million-year-old mosasaur from Texas (USA), and the definition of the parafamily Russellosaurina. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):321-333
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Bibliography (5)
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G. L. Bell Jr., K. R. Barnes, and M. J. Polcyn. 2013. Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the Big bend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:571-581
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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
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B. A. Schumacher. 2011. A ‘woollgari-zone mosasaur’ (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Carlile Shale (Lower Middle Turonian) of central Kansas and the stratigraphic overlap of early mosasaurs and pliosaurid plesiosaurs. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114(1-2):1-14
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M. W. Caldwell and T. Konishi. 2007. Taxonomic re-assignment of the first-known mosasaur specimen from Japan, and a discussion of circum-Pacific mosasaur paleobiogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):517-520
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