Temporal range: Campanian-Maastrichtian, 82.7–66.0 Ma
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Skeleton of Mosasaurus (front view) in the Maastricht Natural History Museum.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Clade:
†Mosasauria
Family:
†Mosasauridae
Subfamily:
†Mosasaurinae
Tribe:
†Mosasaurini Russell, 1967
Genera
†Bentiabasaurus
†Eremiasaurus
†Moanasaurus
†Mosasaurus
†Plotosaurus
Synonyms
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.
Mosasaurini is an extinct tribe of mosasaurine mosasaurs who lived during the Late Cretaceous and whose fossils have been found in North America, South...
subdivisions, the tribes Globidensini (Globidens and its closest relatives) and Mosasaurini (Mosasaurus and its closest relatives). A third tribe, the Prognathodontini...
traditionally form a tribe within the Mosasaurinae variously called Mosasaurini or Plotosaurini. One of the earliest relevant attempts at an evolutionary...
2017), Prognathodon is recovered as a sister group to the Mosasaurini, and the clade Mosasaurini + Prognathodon itself was recovered as forming a sister...
et al. (2012) argued that, although not necessarily invalid, dropping Mosasaurini would not follow the general principle of type genus carried over to...
researchers have suggested that they may be more appropriately placed in the Mosasaurini. Towards the end of the Cretaceous, a series of adaptations allowed the...
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