Species
Valid Extinct

Kaikaifilu hervei

Otero et al. 2017

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
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Classification
Mosasauridae Family
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Tylosaurinae Subfamily
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Kaikaifilu Genus
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Kaikaifilu hervei Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇶 Antarctica
1
Geological formations
Lopez de Bertodano
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
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 ↗
Bibliography (1)
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 ↗