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Tylosaurinae

Wiliston 1895

Les Tylosaurinae sont une sous-famille fossile de très grands Mosasaures, des squamates (reptiles) marins carnivores du Crétacé supérieur.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
109
Groupe
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestre
Tylosaurinae
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A Taniwhasaurus antarcticus skeletal mount on display at the Field Museum of Natural History. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Tylosaurinae
Tylosaurinae
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Mosasauridae Famille
Tylosaurinae Sous-famille
Sites de découverte 109 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
48
🇸🇪 Suède
14
🇦🇶 Antarctique
10
🇳🇿 Nouvelle-Zélande
5
🇩🇪 Allemagne
5
🇨🇦 Canada
4
🇫🇷 France
4
🇷🇺 Russie
3
🇧🇪 Belgique
3
🇦🇴 Angola
2
Formations géologiques
Conway
4
Snow Hill Island
4
Boquillas
3
Itombe
2
Opoka
2
Tar Heel
2
Ojinaga
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
16
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
56
Santonien (85.7–83.6 Ma)
8
Coniacien (89.8–85.7 Ma)
25
Turonien (93.9–89.8 Ma)
4
Synonymes (1)
Hainosaurus lonzeensis nomen dubium, species not entered Tylosaurinae
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Bibliographie
Description originale
J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama DOI ↗
Bibliographie (61)
R. A. Otero. 2025. Review of two marine vertebrate assemblages from the Arauco Basin (central Chile) reveals diversity changes throughout the Maastrichtian. Cretaceous Research 166(78):105996 DOI ↗
P. L. Jambura, S. V. Solonin, and S. L. A. Cooper, E. V. Mychko, M. S. Arkhangelsky, J. Türtscher, M. Amadori, S. Stumpf, A. V. Vodorezov, J. Kriwet. 2024. Fossil marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Akkermanovka (Orenburg Oblast, Southern Urals, Russia). Cretaceous Research 155(105779) DOI ↗
M. Plasse, X. Valentin, and G. Garcia, G. Guinot, N. Bardet. 2024. New remains of Mosasauroidea (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of Aude, southern France. Cretaceous Research 157(105823):1-16 DOI ↗
T. H. Rempert, B. P. Martens, and A. P. M. Vinkeles Melchers. 2022. First Record of a Tylosaurine Mosasaur from the Latest Cretaceous Phosphates of Morocco. Open Journal of Geology 12:883-906 DOI ↗
M. R. Woolley, A. Chinsamy, and M. W. Caldwell. 2022. Unraveling the taxonomy of the South African mosasaurids. Frontiers in Earth Science 10:971968:1-22 DOI ↗
D. V. Grigoriev and A. A. Grabovskiy. 2020. Arctic mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia. Cretaceous Research 114(104499) DOI ↗
M. Romano, R. Manni, and E. Venditti, U. Nicosia, A. Cipriani. 2019. First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy. Cretaceous Research 96:196-209 DOI ↗
J. J. Hornung, M. Reich, and U. Frerichs. 2018. A mosasaur fauna (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Alcheringa 42(4):543-559 DOI ↗
P. Jiménez-Huidobro, M. W. Caldwell, and I. Paparella, T. S. Bullard. 2018. A new species of tylosaurine mosasaur from the upper Campanian Bearpaw Formation of Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI ↗
R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuna, and D. Rubilar-Rogers, C. S. Gutstein. 2017. Kaikaifilu hervei gen. et sp. nov., a new large mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 70:209-225 DOI ↗
P. Jiménez-Huidobro and M. W. Caldwell. 2016. Reassessment and reassignment of the early Maastrichtian mosasaur Hainosaurus bernardi Dollo, 1885, to Tylosaurus Marsh, 1872. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3):e1096275:1-13 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
D. R. Schwimmer, A. E. Sanders, and B. R. Erickson, R. E. Weems. 2015. A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile assemblage from South Carolina, USA. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 105(2):1-157
G. L. Bell Jr., K. R. Barnes, and M. J. Polcyn. 2013. Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the Big bend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:571-581 DOI ↗
A. L. Flores. 2013. Occurence of a tylosaurine mosasaur (Mosasauridae; Russellosaurina) from the Turonian of Chihuahua State, Mexico. Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 65(1):99-107
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 DOI ↗
M. S. Fernández and Z. Gasparini. 2012. Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurs from Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia, Argentina. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(2):93-102 DOI ↗
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
C. D. Crane. 2011. Vertebrate Paleontology and Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Bladen Formation, Bladen County, North Carolina.
T. S. Bullard and M. W. Caldwell. 2010. Redescription and rediagnosis of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus pembinensis Nicholls, 1988, as Tylosaurus pembinensis (Nicholls, 1988). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):416-426 DOI ↗
M. W. Caldwell, T. Konishi, and I. Obata, K. Muramoto. 2008. A new species of Taniwhasaurus (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) from the Upper Santonian-Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):339-348 DOI ↗
J. E. Martin. 2007. A North American Hainosaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of southern South Dakota. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:199-207 DOI ↗
R. W. Meredith, J. E. Martin, and P. N. Wegleitner. 2007. The largest mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Missouri River area (Late Cretaceous; Pierre Shale Group) of South Dakota and its relationship to Lewis and Clark. DOI ↗
N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. C. Coral. 2006. A tylosaurine Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of the Basque-Cantabrian region. Estudios Geológicos 62(1):213-218
D. G. DeMar, Jr. and B. H. Breithaupt. 2006. The nonmammalian vertebrate microfossil assemblages of the Mesaverde Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of the Wind River and Bighorn Basins, Wyoming. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:33-54
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 DOI ↗
M. W. Caldwell, R. Holmes, and G. L. Bell, Jr, J. Wiffen. 2005. An unusual tylosaurine mosasaur from New Zealand: a new skull of Taniwhasaurus oweni (Lower Haumurian; Upper Cretaceous). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2):393-401 DOI ↗
M. J. Everhart. 2005. Earliest record of the genus Tylosaurus (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Fort Hays Limestone (Lower Coniacian) of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 108(3):149-155 DOI ↗
M. J. Everhart. 2005. Tylosaurus kansasensis, a new species of tylosaurine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas, USA. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):231-240 DOI ↗
J. W. M. Jagt, J. Lindgren, and M. Machalski, A. Radwankski. 2005. New records of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of central Poland. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):303-306 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
J. Lindgren. 2005. The first record of Hainosaurus (Reptilia: Mosasauridae) from Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 79(6):1157-1165 DOI ↗
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
M. J. Everhart and T. Caggiano. 2004. An associated dentition and calcified vertebral centra of the Late Cretaceous elasmobranch, Ptychodus anonymus Williston 1900. Paludicola 4:125-136
J. Lindgren and M. Siverson. 2002. Tylosaurus ivoensis: a giant mosasaur from the early Campanian of Sweden. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 93:73-93 DOI ↗
J. E. Martin. 2002. Juvenile marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of the Antarctic Peninsula and their relationships to other such occurrences in Central South Dakota and Belgium. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 81:53-57
F. E. Novas, M. Fernández, and Z. B. d. Gasparini, J. M. Lirio, H. J. Nuñez, P. Puerta. 2002. Lakumasaurus antarcticus, n. gen. et sp., a new mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Ameghiniana 39(2):245-249
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