Tribe
Valid Extinct

Plotosaurini

Russell 1967

Mosasaurini is an extinct tribe of mosasaurine mosasaurs who lived during the Late Cretaceous and whose fossils have been found in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Oceania, with questionable occurrences in Asia. They are highly derived mosasaurs, containing genera like Plotosaurus, having unique adaptations to fast swimming speeds, or Mosasaurus, which is among the largest known marine reptiles.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Mosasaures
Carnivore aquatic Terrestrial
Plotosaurini
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Mosasaurus skeleton; Maastricht Natural History Museum, The Netherlands. © Wilson44691 · Public domain · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Mosasauridae Family
Mosasaurinae Subfamily
Plotosaurini Tribe
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Jagüel
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
Bibliography (1)
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 DOI ↗