Species
Valid Extinct

Tylosaurus kansasensis

Everhart 2005

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
15
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 kansasensis Species
Fossil sites 15 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
14
🇲🇽 Mexico
1
Geological formations
Niobrara
13
Ojinaga
1
Boquillas
1
Temporal distribution
Coniacian (89.8–85.7 Ma)
14
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
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 ↗
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 ↗
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
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 ↗