Species
Valid Extinct

Tylosaurus nepaeolicus

(Cope 1874)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Tylosaurinae Subfamily
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Tylosaurus Genus
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Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
3
Geological formations
Niobrara
2
Boquillas
1
Temporal distribution
Coniacian (89.8–85.7 Ma)
3
Bibliography
Original description
E. D. Cope. 1874. Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period found west of the Mississippi River. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, First Series 2:3-48
Bibliography (3)
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 ↗
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
E. D. Cope. 1874. Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period found west of the Mississippi River. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, First Series 2:3-48