Classification
Sites de découverte 102 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien
(72.2–66 Ma)
20
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
54
Santonien
(85.7–83.6 Ma)
8
Coniacien
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
15
Turonien
(93.9–89.8 Ma)
2
Cénomanien
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
2
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Images 9
Bibliographie
Description originale
D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
Bibliographie (64)
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
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T. H. Rempert, B. P. Martens, and A. P. M. Vinkeles Melchers. 2024. New mosasaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Mississippi. The Mosasaur 13:79-90
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J. G. Allen and K. Shimada. 2022. Fossil vertebrates from a unique marine bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk, western Kansas, U.S.A.: new insights into the paleoecology of the Niobrara Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(e2066999)
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N. Bardet, G. Guinot, and I. O. Yılmaz, I. Hoşgör. 2022. New marine vertebrates (elasmobranchs, actinopterygians, reptiles) from the Upper Cretaceous Arabic Platform of SE Turkey. Comptes Rendus Palevol 21:837-845
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A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12
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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
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R. S. Cuthbertson and R. B. Holmes. 2015. A new species of Plioplatecarpus (Mosasauridae, Plioplatecarpinae) from the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Montana, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(3):e922980:1-18
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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
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A. M. Sørensen, F. Surlyk, and J. Lindgren. 2013. Food resources and habitat selection of a diverse vertebrate fauna from the upper lower Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 42(1):85-92
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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
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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
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T. Konishi and M. W. Caldwell. 2011. Two new plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a global phylogenetic analysis of plioplatecarpines. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(4):754-783
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T. Konishi, M. W. Caldwell, and G. L. Bell, Jr. 2010. Redescription of the holotype of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope, 1869 (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae), and its implications for the alpha taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1410-1421
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J. Lindgren, M. W. Caldwell, and T. Konishi, L. M. Chiappe. 2010. Convergent evolution in aquatic tetrapods: insights from an exceptional fossil mosasaur. PLoS One 5(8):e11998
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T. Komishi and M. W. Caldwell. 2009. New material of the mosasaur Plioplatecarpus nichollsae Cuthbertson et al., 2007, clarifies problematic features of the holotype specimen. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):417-436
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M. Fernández, J. Martin, and S. Casadío. 2008. Mosasaurs (Reptilia) from the late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of northern Patagonia (Río Negro, Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25(2):176-186
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R. S. Cuthbertson, J. C. Mallon, and N. E. Campione, R. B. Holmes. 2007. A new species of mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Pierre Shale (lower Campanian) of Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:593-606
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S. A. Hamm and K. Shimada. 2007. The Late Cretaceous anacoracid shark, Pseudocorax laevis (Leriche), from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110:44-52
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J. W. Hoganson, J. M. Erickson, and F. D. Holland. 2007. Amphibian, reptilian, and avian remains from the Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian): shoreline and estuarine deposits of the Pierre Sea in south-central North Dakota. The Geology and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Marine Deposits of the Dakotas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:239-256
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T. Konishi and M. W. Caldwell. 2007. New specimens of Platecarpus planifrons (Cope, 1874) (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and a revised taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):59-72
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J. W. M. Jagt, N. Motchurova-Dekova, and P. Ivanov, H. Capetta, A. S. Schulp. 2006. Latest Cretaceous mosasaurs and lamniform sharks from Labirinta cave, Vratsa district (northwest Bulgaria): a preliminary note. Annales Geologiques de la Peninsule Balkanique 67:51-63
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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
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J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of Australasia. Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates
K. Shimada. 2006. Marine vertebrates from the Blue Hill Shale Member of the Carlile Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Middle Turonian) in Kansas. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:165-175
P. Bengtson and J. Lindgren. 2005. First record of the mosasaur Platecarpus Cope, 1869 from South America and its systematic implications. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 8(1):5-12
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B. P. Kear, J. A. Long, and J. E. Martin. 2005. A review of Australian mosasaur occurences. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):307-313
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J. Lindgren and J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Danish mosasaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):315-320
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A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2004. Carnivorous dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) from the Maastrichtian of the Volga-Don interfluve, Russia. Paleontological Journal 38(1):78-82
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
J. W. Hoganson and B. Woodward. 2004. Skeleton of the rare giant sea turtle, Archelon, recovered from the Cretaceous DeGrey Member of the Pierre Shale near Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota. North Dakota Geological Society Newsletter 32(1):1-4
M. J. Everhart. 2001. Revisions to the biostratigraphy of the Moasasauridae (Squamata) in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobara Chalk (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 104(1-2):59-78
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N. Bardet, H. Cappetta, and X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Mouty, A. K. Al Maleh, A. M. Ahmed, O. Khrata, N. Gannoum. 2000. The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria. Geological Magazine 137(3):269-290
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N. Bardet, J. C. Corral, and X. Pereda Superbiola. 1997. Les mosasaures (Squamata) du Cretace Superieur du Bassin Basco-Cantabrique. Geobios 20:19-26
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L. B. de Carvalho. 1996. A ocorrência de lagartos marinhos (Mosasauridae - Lepidosauria) e sua associação faunística no cretáceo da Bacia Pernambuco Paraíba, nordeste do Brasil.
R. Holmes. 1996. Pliopletecarpus primaevus (Mosasauridae) from the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of the North American Western Interior Seaway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(4):673-687
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D. Thies and J. Vespermann. 1995. Die Mosasaurier des Roemer-Museums in Hildesheim. (The Mosasauridae of the Roemer Museum in Hildesheim). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 69(3/4):459-465
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T. Lingham-Soliar. 1994. First record of mosasaurs from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Zaire. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 68(1/2):259-265
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T. T. Tokaryk. 1993. A plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Bearpaw Shale (Upper Cretaceous) of Saskatchewan, Canada. Modern Geology 18:503-509
T. Lingham-Soliar. 1991. Mosasaurs from the Upper Cretacous of Niger. Palaeontology 34(3):653-670
E. L. Nicholls and A. P. Russell. 1990. Paleobiogeography of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America: the vertebrate evidence . 79(1-2):149-169
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A. J. Robb. 1989. The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian, Black Creek Formation) fossil fish fauna of Phoebus Landing, Bladen County, North Carolina. The Mosasaur 4:75-92
S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and R. Pence. 1988. Some Late Cretaceous reptiles from New Mexico. Contributions to Late Cretaceous paleontology and stratigraphy of New Mexico. Part III. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 122:49-60
S. L. Olson and D. C. Parris. 1987. The Cretaceous birds of New Jersey. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 63:1-22
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D. R. Schwimmer. 1986. Late Cretaceous fossils from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in western Georgia. The Mosasaur 3:109-123
W. Langston. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1576-1608
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J. Bergström, W. K. Christensen, and C. Johansson, E. Norling. 1973. An extension of Upper Cretaceous Rocks to the Swedish west coast at Särdal. Bull. geol. Soc. Denmark 22:83-154
D. A. Russell. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabamam: Part VII The Mosasaurs. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(7):365-380
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J. T. Thurmond. 1969. Notes on mosasaurs from Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 21(1):69-80
D. Bardack. 1968. Fossil vertebrates from the marine Cretaceous of Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5:145-153
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H. W. Miller and M. V. Walker. 1968. Enchoteuthis melanae and Kansasteuthis lindneri, new genera and species of teuthids, and a sepiid from the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 71:176-183
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J. B. Delair and M. M. Ibrahim. 1967. The occurence of Upper Cretaceous pliosaurs in Egypt. Proceedings of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences
D. A. Russell. 1967. Cretaceous vertebrates from the Anderson River N. W. T. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 4(1):21-38
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D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
H. W. Miller. 1966. Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from Phoebus Landing, North Carolina. The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 82(2):93
D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs.
P. O. Persson. 1960. Reptiles from the Senonian (U Cret) of Scania (S Sweden). Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi 2(35):431-478
M. G. Mehl. 1930. A new genus of mosasaurs from Mexico, and notes on the pelvic girdle of Platecarpus. Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific Laboratories 29(10):383-400
F. B. Loomis. 1915. A new mosasaur from the Fort Pierre. American Journal of Science 39(233):555-566
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F. B. Loomis. 1904. Two new river reptiles from the Titanothere beds. American Journal of Science 18:427-432
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S. W. Williston. 1902. Notes on some new or little-known extinct reptiles. Kansas University Science Bulletin 1(9):247-254
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
E. D. Cope. 1871. Catalogue of the Pythonomorpha found in the Cretaceous strata of Kansas. Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society (separate)
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E. D. Cope. 1870. On some species of Pythonomorpha from the Cretaceous beds of Kansas and New Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11(81):574-584