Classification
Sites de découverte 132 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien
(72.2–66 Ma)
72
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
51
Santonien
(85.7–83.6 Ma)
3
Coniacien
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
2
Cénomanien
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
3
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Espèces (41)
Amphekepubis johnsoni
90 Ma
Mosasaurus beaugei
84 Ma
Mosasaurus conodon
84 Ma
Mosasaurus dekayi
84 Ma
Mosasaurus depressus
84 Ma
Mosasaurus flemingi
84 Ma
Mosasaurus gaudryi
86 Ma
Mosasaurus gracilis
101 Ma
Mosasaurus hobetsuensis
72 Ma
Mosasaurus hoffmannii
84 Ma
Mosasaurus horridus
84 Ma
Mosasaurus lemonnieri
84 Ma
Mosasaurus lonzeensis
90 Ma
Mosasaurus missouriensis
84 Ma
Mosasaurus mokoroa
84 Ma
Mosasaurus reversus
nomen dubium, species not entered Mosasaurus
Nectoportheus validus
72 Ma
Synonymes (11)
Amphekepubis
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Baseodon
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Batrachiosaurus
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Batrachotherium
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Drepanodon
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Lesticodus
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Macrosaurus
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus impar
nomen dubium, species not entered Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus reversus
nomen dubium, species not entered Mosasaurus
Nectoportheus
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Pterycollosaurus
subjective synonym of Mosasaurus
Bibliographie
Description originale
J. Parkinson. 1822. Outlines of Oryctology. An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains; Especially of Those Found in the British Strata: Intended to Aid the Student in His Inquiries Respecting the Nature of Fossils
Bibliographie (74)
Z. Boles, P. Ullmann, and I. Putnam, M. Ford, J. Deckhut. 2024. New vertebrate microfossils expand the chondrichthyan and actinopterygian fauna of the Maastrichtian-Danian Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69:173-198
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L. W. Viñola-López, C. R. Borges-Sellén, and A. F. Arano-Ruiz, S. Quintero Vázquez, R. Rabassa Puerto, Y. Ceballos-Izquierdo. 2022. The first record of mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the West Indies and its paleobiogeographical implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 119:103972
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J.-C. Corral, A. Berreteaga, and F. J. Poyato-Ariza, N. Bardet, H. Cappetta, M. Floquet, H. Astibia, A. Badiola, X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2021. Stratigraphy, age, and vertebrate palaeontology of the latest Cretaceous Quintanilla la Ojada locality (Basque-Cantabrian Region, northern Spain): a synthesis. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(7):91-117
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A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12
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P. González Ruiz, M. S. Fernández, and M. Talevi, J. M. Leardi, M. A. Reguero. 2019. A new Plotosaurini mosasaur skull from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica. Plotosaurini paleogeographic occurrences. Cretaceous Research 103:104166:1-11
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A. A. Farke and G. E. Phillips. 2017. The first reported ceratopsid dinosaur from eastern North America (Owl Creek Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mississippi, USA). PeerJ 5:e3342
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T. L. Harrell, Jr. and J. E. Martin. 2015. A mosasaur from the Maastrichtian Fox Hills Formation of the northern Western Interior Seaway of the United States and the synonymy of Mosasaurus maximus with Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Reptilia: Mosasauridae). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw 94(1):23-37
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
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T. Ikejiri and S. G. Lucas. 2015. Osteology and taxonomy of Mosasaurus conodon Cope 1881 from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences —– Geologie en Mijnbouw 94(1):39-54
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W. R. Callahan, C. M. Mehling, and R. K. Denton Jr, D. C. Parris. 2014. Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Holmdel Park Site, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Dakoterra 6:163-169
H. Cappetta, N. Bardet, and X. Pereda Suberbiola, S. Adnet, D. Akkrim, M. Amalik, A. Benabdallah. 2014. Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 409:217-238
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F. Fanti, A. Cau, and A. Negri. 2014. A giant mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) with an unusually twisted dentition from the Argille Scagliose Complex (late Campanian) of Northern Italy. Cretaceous Research 49:91-104
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T. Konishi, M. G. Newbrey, and M. W. Caldwell. 2014. A small, exquisitely preserved specimen of Mosasaurus missouriensis (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Campanian of the Bearpaw Formation, western Canada, and the first stomach contents for the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(4):802-819
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A. Palci, M. W. Caldwell, and C. A. Papazzoni, E. Forniciari. 2014. Mosasaurine mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from northern Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):549-559
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N. Bardet, G. Martin, and J. C. Corral, X. Pereda Suberbiola, H. Astibia. 2013. New mosasaurid teeth (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Maastrichtian of Albaina (Laño quarry, Condado de Treviño). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 28(1):69-77
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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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O. Mateus, M. J. Polcyn, and L. L. Jacobs, R. Arujo, A. S. Schulp, J. Marinheiro, B. Pereira, D. P. Vineyard. 2012. Cretaceous amniotes from Angola: dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, turtles. Actas de V Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontologia de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Salas de los Infantes, Burgos
J. C. Corral, N. Bardet, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. A. Arz. 2011. Depredadores marinos (osteíctios, selacios y mosasaurios) en el Campaniense de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica. Paleontologia i Evolució Memoria Especial 5:83-87
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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M. T. W. Carter, R. O. Johnson, and J. A. Chamberlain, C. Mehling. 2008. A new vertebrate fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) New Egypt Formation of New Jersey. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 40(2):78-79
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
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J. W. Hoganson, J. M. Erickson, and F. D. Holland. 2007. Amphibian, reptilian, and avian remains from the Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian): shoreline and estuarine deposits of the Pierre Sea in south-central North Dakota. The Geology and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Marine Deposits of the Dakotas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:239-256
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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
J. E. Martin and J. A. Crame. 2006. Palaeobiological significance of high-latitude Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica 258(1):109-124
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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. 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
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J. Lindgren and J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Danish mosasaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):315-320
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M. Tanimoto. 2005. Mosasaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group of southwest Japan. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):373-378
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A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2004. Carnivorous dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) from the Maastrichtian of the Volga-Don interfluve, Russia. Paleontological Journal 38(1):78-82
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
N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and M. Iarochene, F. Bouyahyaoui, B. Bouya, M. Amaghzaz. 2004. Mosasaurus beaugei Arambourg, 1952 (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco. Geobios 37:315-324
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W. B. Gallagher, J. W. M. Jagt, and E. W. A. Mulder, A. S. Schulp. 2004. A new mosasaur specimen from Maastricht (the Netherlands), with a review of the Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene marine faunas of New Jersey and Limburg. The Mosasaur 7:47-57
M. Machalski, J. W. M. Jagt, and R. W. Dortangs, E. W. A. Mulder, A. Radwański. 2003. Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurid reptiles from central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3):397-408
N. Bardet and C. Tunoglu. 2002. The first mosasaur (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of Turkey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):712-715
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W. B. Gallagher. 2002. Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event. Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and beyond. GSA Special Paper 356:291-301
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N. Bardet, H. Cappetta, and X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Mouty, A. K. Al Maleh, A. M. Ahmed, O. Khrata, N. Gannoum. 2000. The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria. Geological Magazine 137(3):269-290
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E. F. Hartstein, L. E. Decina, and R. F. Keil. 1999. A Late Cretaceous (Severn Formation) Vertebrate Assemblage from Bowie, Maryland. The Mosasaur 6:17-23
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
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T. Lingham-Soliar. 1995. Anatomy and Functional Morphology of the Largest Marine Reptile Known, Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mosasauridae, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous, Upper Maastrichtian of the Netherlands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 347(1320):155-180
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W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154
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