Original description
M. J. Polcyn, E. Tchernov, and LL Jacobs. 1999. The Cretaceous biogeography of the Eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from 'Ein Yabrud, Israel. in Y. Tomida, T.H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich, eds., Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium. National Science Museum Monographs, Tokyo, Japan. (15):259-290