Genus
Valid Extinct

Sarabosaurus

Polcyn et al. 2023

Sarabosaurus is a monospecific genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaurid from the lower Turonian Tropic Shale of Utah, United States. The type and only species, S. dahli, was named in honor of Steve Dahl, a volunteer at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Kanab, Utah.

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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Plioplatecarpinae Subfamily
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Sarabosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Tropic Shale
1
Temporal distribution
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Sarabosaurus dahli 94 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
M.J. Polcyn, N. Bardet, and LB Albright III, A. Titus. 2023. A new lower Turonian mosasaurid from the Western Interior Seaway and the antiquity of the unique basicranial circulation pattern in Plioplatecarpinae. Cretaceous Research 151(2023):105621 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
M.J. Polcyn, N. Bardet, and LB Albright III, A. Titus. 2023. A new lower Turonian mosasaurid from the Western Interior Seaway and the antiquity of the unique basicranial circulation pattern in Plioplatecarpinae. Cretaceous Research 151(2023):105621 DOI ↗