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Members of the
subfamily are
informally and
collectively known as "
mosasaurines" and
their fossils have been
recovered from
every continent except for...
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skeletal anatomy exhibits a mix of
features seen in both
basal and
derived mosasaurines. The
holotype specimen was
first discovered as a
single piece of bone...
- Plesiotylosaurus,
Liodon and Clidastes, all of
which are now seen as more
basal mosasaurines. A more
recently suggested definition is a branch-based
definition diagnosing...
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instead found that
Dallasaurus was
ancestral to both
russellosaurines and
mosasaurines,
although results were
inconsistent in
later studies. A 2017
study by...
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currently known from
North America. It is also one of the
smallest known mosasaurines,
measuring approximately 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. The
genus is
based upon...
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Megapterygius (meaning "large wing") is an
extinct genus of
mosasaurine mosasaur from the Late
Cretaceous Toyajo Formation (Hasegawa
Muddy Sandstone Member)...
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still a lack of
comparative studies of the
skeletal anatomy of
large mosasaurines at the time.
These problems were
addressed in Street's 2016
thesis in...
- in the
Moreno Formation in California.
Though it is
classified as a
mosasaurine mosasaur, and not
closely related to Tylosaurus, the name is not entirely...
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Santonian and Campanian, but
appear to have been
largely replaced by
large mosasaurines, such as Mosasaurus, by the end of the Maastrichtian. Nevertheless, the...
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Prognathodon from
closely related genera like
Liodon and long-snouted
mosasaurines. The
preserved teeth and gut
contents also
allowed studies into the inferred...
