- (Turonian–Maastrichtian ages), with the
extinction of the
ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs,
mosasaurids became the
dominant marine predators. They
themselves became extinct...
-
mosasauroids to be a non-monophyletic group, with some taxa
nestled within the
mosasaurids.
Daniel Madzia and
Andrea Cau in 2017
defined Mosasauroidea as "the most...
- to
recover it
within a
clade of non-plioplatecarpin
plioplatecarpine mosasaurids. They
named this clade—also
containing Gavialimimus,
Goronyosaurus and...
- et al. (2024)
recovered Khinjaria within a
clade of
plioplatecarpine mosasaurids, as the
sister taxon to Goronyosaurus. They
named this clade—also containing...
- Non-
mosasaurid mosasauroids shall be
noted as such. The list
currently includes 91 genera, out of
which 57 are
considered valid (47
mosasaurids and 10...
- environments; the Late
Cretaceous saw the rise of
large marine forms, the
mosasaurids,
which are the clade's best-known members. The
clade is
defined as all...
- "sauros",
meaning lizard) is a
monospecific genus of
plioplatecarpine mosasaurid from the
lower Turonian Tropic Shale of Utah,
United States. The type...
- Khaldoune, F.; Yazami, O. K.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Longrich, N. (2025). "
Mosasaurids Bare the Teeth: An
Extraordinary Ecological Disparity in the Phosphates...
- respects,
halisaurines had the
distinctive hypocercal tail of
other mosasaurids suggesting good
swimming ability, and they
persisted alongside other...
-
predators in the
fossil record,
roughly equalling the
longest ichthyosaurs,
mosasaurids,
sharks and
toothed whales in size. Some
plesiosaurian remains, such...
