Classification
Fossil sites 393 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian
(72.2–66 Ma)
202
Campanian
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
165
Santonian
(85.7–83.6 Ma)
7
Coniacian
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
7
Turonian
(93.9–89.8 Ma)
5
Cenomanian
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
5
Albian
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
2
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Bibliography
Original description
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A. S. Schulp, M. J. Polcyn, and O. Mateus, L. L. Jacobs. 2013. Two rare mosasaurs from the Maastrichtian of Angola and the Netherlands. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 92(1):3-10
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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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N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J.-C. Corral, J. I. Baceta, J. A. Torres, B. Botantz, G. Martin. 2012. A skull fragment of the mosasaurid Prognathodon cf. sectorius from the Late Cretaceous of Navarre (Basque-Cantabrian Region). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(2):117-121
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M. S. Fernández and Z. Gasparini. 2012. Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurs from Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia, Argentina. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(2):93-102
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H.-V. Karl, E. Groning, and C. Brauckmann. 2012. New materials of the giant sea turtle Allopleuron (Testudines: Chelonioidea) from the marine Late Cretaceous of Central Europe and the Palaeogene of Kazakhstan. Studia Palaeocheloniologica 4:153-173
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A. R. H. LeBlanc, M. W. Caldwell, and N. Bardet. 2012. A new mosasaurine from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) phosphates of Morocco and its implications for mosasaurine systematics. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):82-104
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P. Godefroit and N. Motchurova-Dekova. 2010. Latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) remains from Bulgaria. Comptes Rendus Palevol 9(4):163-169
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J. Lindgren and A. S. Schulp. 2010. New material of Prognathodon (Squamata: Mosasauridae), and the mosasaur assemblage of the Maastrichtian of California, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1632-1636
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C. P. Consoli and J. D. Stilwell. 2009. Late Cretaceous marine reptiles (Elasmosauridae and Mosasauridae) of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Cretaceous Research 30(4):991-999
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A. S. Schulp, N. Bardet, and B. Bouya. 2009. A new species of the durophagous mosasaur Carinodens (Squamata, Mosasauridae) and additional material of Carinodens belgicus from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 88(3):161-167
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A. O. Averianov, M. S. Arkhangelsky, and E. M. Pervushov. 2008. A new Late Cretaceous azhdarchid (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Volga region. Paleontological Journal 42(6):634-642
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A. S. Schulp, M. J. Polcyn, and O. Mateus, L. L. Jacobs, M. L. Morais. 2008. A new species of Prognathodon (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola, and the affinities of the mosasaur genus Liodon. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting
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J. E. Martin. 2007. A new species of the durophagous mosasaur Globidens (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group of central South Dakota, USA. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:177-198
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J. W. M. Jagt, N. Motchurova-Dekova, and P. Ivanov, H. Capetta, A. S. Schulp. 2006. Latest Cretaceous mosasaurs and lamniform sharks from Labirinta cave, Vratsa district (northwest Bulgaria): a preliminary note. Annales Geologiques de la Peninsule Balkanique 67:51-63
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H. F. Kaddumi. 2006. A new genus and species of gigantic marine turtles (Chelonioidea: Cheloniidae) from the Maastrichtian of the Harrana Fauna-Jordan. PalArch Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1):1-14
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A. S. Schulp, A. O. Averianov, and A. A. Yarkov, F. A. Trikolidi, J. W. M. Jagt. 2006. First record of the Late Cretaceous durophagous mosaasaur Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Volgogradskaya Oblast (Russia) and Crimea (Ukraine). Russian Journal of Herpetology 213(3):175-180
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W. B. Gallagher. 2005. Recent mosasaur discoveries from New Jersey and Delaware, USA: stratigraphy, taphonomy and implications for mosasaur extinction. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84(3):241-245
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W. B. Gallagher, C. E. Campbell, and J. W. Jagt, E. W. A. Mulder. 2005. Mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) material from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in Missouri. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2):473-475
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J. Lindgren. 2005. Dental and vertebral morphology of the enigmatic mosasaur Dollosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Sweden. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmakr 52:17-25
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C. Diedrich and E. W. A. Mulder. 2004. A new record of Clidastes (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Upper Campanian of the Munster Basin (NW Germany). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw 83(1):73-78
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