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Plotosaurini

Russell 1967

Mosasaurini is an extinct tribe of mosasaurine mosasaurs who lived during the Late Cretaceous and whose fossils have been found in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Oceania, with questionable occurrences in Asia. They are highly derived mosasaurs, containing genera like Plotosaurus, having unique adaptations to fast swimming speeds, or Mosasaurus, which is among the largest known marine reptiles.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
1
Groupe
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestre
Plotosaurini
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Mosasaurus skeleton; Maastricht Natural History Museum, The Netherlands. © Wilson44691 · Public domain · Wikimedia

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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Mosasauridae Famille
Mosasaurinae Sous-famille
Plotosaurini Tribu
Sites de découverte 1 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇦🇷 Argentine
1
Formations géologiques
Jagüel
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Bibliographie
Description originale
D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
Bibliographie (1)
M. Fernández, J. Martin, and S. Casadío. 2008. Mosasaurs (Reptilia) from the late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of northern Patagonia (Río Negro, Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25(2):176-186 DOI ↗