New mosasaurs (Reptilia; Family Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Island, New Zealand

Wiffen, J.

doi:10.1080/00288306.1990.10427574

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“…Distribution -Prognathodon is a large mosasaurid represented by eight species found in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of Europe (Lingham-Soliar & Nolf, 1990;Dortangs et al, 2002;Lindgren, 2004), the Middle East (Bardet et al, 2000;Christiansen & Bonde, 2002), North America (Russell, 1967;Kass, 1999), and New Zealand (Welles & Gregg, 1971;Wiffen, 1990).…”

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Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens

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|Three durophagous mosasaur species are represented by isolated teeth in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) phosphatic beds of Morocco. Globidens phosphaticus nov. sp. is characterised mainly by a strong heterodonty, with mid-posterior teeth being bulbous, irregularly oval in crosssection, and having an inflated posterior surface, a large eccentric located and recurved apical nubbin, vertical sulci on medial and lateral faces, no carinae and an enamel surface covered by anastomosing ridges. Teeth of Prognathodon currii are broad and tall, straight cones, slightly swollen at the base, and with two serrated carinae. These two taxa have been collected from all the phosphatic series (lower to upper Maastrichtian) in the Ganntour Basin (Morocco). Globidens phosphaticus nov. sp. is probably also represented at other Maastrichtian phosphatic sites along the southern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys. Prognathodon currii was previously known only from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Negev. Of the third taxon, Carinodens belgicus, only a single tooth (now lost) is known from the Oulad Abdoun Basin (Morocco); this is low, swollen, laterally compressed and bicarinate with a large apical nubbin. Previous records of this species include Europe and Brazil.

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Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens

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“…mosasaurine and plioplatecarpine mosasaurids) and one identifiable genus: the ubiquitous mosasaurine Prognathodon. This pandemic taxon has been described from CampanianMaastrichtian strata in New Zealand (Welles & Gregg, 1971;Wiffen, 1990), Europe (Lingham-Soliar & Nolf, 1989;Dortangs et al 2002;Bardet, Corral & Pereda Suberbiola, 1997;Lindgren, 2004), North America (Russell, 1967) and Africa (LinghamSoliar, 1994;Bardet et al 2005a), and is abundant in the Late Cretaceous deposits of the Middle East (Bardet et al 2000;Bardet & Pereda Suberbiola, 2002;Christiansen & Bonde, 2002).…”

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Late Cretaceous (Campanian—Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia

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Marine reptile remains occur in the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian to lower Maastrichtian) Adaffa Formation of NW Saudi Arabia. This is the first detailed report of late Mesozoic marine reptiles from the Arabian Peninsula. The fossils include bothremydid (cf. Taphrosphyini) turtles, dyrosaurid crocodyliforms, elasmosaurid plesiosaurs, mosasaurs (Prognathodon, plioplatecarpines) and an indeterminate small varanoid. The assemblage is compositionally similar to contemporary faunas from elsewhere in the Middle East/North Africa, and comprises taxa that are typical of the southern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys.

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“…We concur with the opinions of Mulder (1999) and Harrell & Martin (2015) that M. maximus is a junior synonym of M. hoffmannii , and with Lindgren & Siverson (2002) that M. ivoensis is a tylosaurine. These considerations result in ten species ( M. beaugei, M. conodon, M. dekayi, M. flemingi Wiffen, 1990, M. hobetsuensis , Suzuki, 1985, M. hoffmannii, M. lemonnieri, M. missouriensis, M. mokoroa , and M. prismaticus , Sakurai, Chitoku & Shibuya, 1999) possibly belonging to Mosasaurus . Of these, only the type species and M. missouriensis have received much attention in recent years.…”

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Rediagnosis and redescription of Mosasaurus hoffmannii (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and an assessment of species assigned to the genus Mosasaurus

Street

Caldwell

2016

Geol. Mag.

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-The large Late Cretaceous marine reptile Mosasaurus has remained poorly defined, in part owing to the unorthodox (by today's nomenclatural standards) manner in which the name was erected. The lack of a diagnosis accompanying the first use of either the genus or species names allowed the genus to become a catchall taxon, and subsequent diagnoses did little to refine the concept of Mosasaurus. We herein present emended diagnoses for both Mosasaurus and the type species M. hoffmannii, based solely on personal examination of the holotype, and a description of the type species based on personal examination of many specimens. Mosasaurus exhibits a premaxilla with a short, conical edentulous rostrum, a maxilla with little to no dorsal excavation for the external naris, posteromedial processes of the frontal that deeply invade the parietal, a quadrate taller than long with a short suprastapedial process and the stapedial pit dorsal to the mid-height of the shaft, an angular that is laterally visible for only a short length of the post-dentary unit, a very tall surangular, a humerus with the postglenoid process robust and offset and a distal width greater than the length, and a pubis with an anteriorly projecting tubercle. M. hoffmannii is distinguished from other species assignable to the genus by the anteroventral corner formed on the tympanic rim of the quadrate, the asymmetric carinae of the anterior marginal teeth dividing the tooth circumference into short labial and long lingual segments, and the proximal and distal expansion of the femur.

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New mosasaurs (Reptilia; Family Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Island, New Zealand

Abstract: New mosasaur specimens of PiripauanHaumurian (Campanian-Maastrichtian)

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Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens

Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens

Late Cretaceous (Campanian—Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia

Rediagnosis and redescription of Mosasaurus hoffmannii (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and an assessment of species assigned to the genus Mosasaurus

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