Mosasaurinae
Mosasaurines | |
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Mounted skeleton of Mosasaurus conodon , Minnesota Science Museum
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Clade: | †Mosasauria |
Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
Family: | †Mosasauridae |
Subfamily: | †Mosasaurinae Gervais, 1853 |
Type species | |
† Mosasaurus hoffmannii
, 1829 | |
Genera | |
The Mosasaurinae are a subfamily of mosasaurs, a diverse group of Late Cretaceous marine squamates. Members of the subfamily are informally and collectively known as "mosasaurines" and their fossils have been recovered from every continent except for South America.[4]
The lineage first appears in the
Though represented by relatively small forms throughout the Turonian and Santonian, such as Clidastes, the lineage diversified during the Campanian and had by the Maastrichtian grown into the most diverse and species-rich mosasaur subfamily.[5]
The etymology of the group derives from the genus Mosasaurus (Latin Mosa = "Meuse river" + Greek sauros = "lizard").
Description
The subfamily is generally recognised as containing two subdivisions, the tribes
Relationships
Cladogram of the Mosasaurinae modified from Longrich et al., 2022:[10]
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References
- ISBN 978-1-4615-2878-4, retrieved 2022-07-13
- ISSN 1477-2019.
- OCLC 709582892.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Mosasaurinae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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- ^ a b Russell, Dale. A. (6 November 1967). "Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University).
- ^ Bell, G. L. Jr., 1997. A phylogenetic revision of North American and Adriatic Mosasauroidea. pp. 293–332 In Callaway J. M. and E. L Nicholls, (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles, Academic Press, 501 pp.
- ^ Gervais, P. 1853. Observations relatives aux reptiles fossiles de France. Acad. Sci. Paris Compt. Rendus 36:374–377, 470–474.
- S2CID 86219057.
- S2CID 251821884.
Further reading
- Kiernan, C. R. (2002). "Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of western and central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 (1): 91–103. S2CID 130280406.
- Williston, S. W. (1897). "Range and distribution of the mosasaurs with remarks on synonymy". Kansas University Quarterly. 4 (4): 177–185.