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Mosasaurs are a type of large aquatic seagoing reptiles indigenous to the Cretaceous era of history. They are a member of the order Squamata, distantly related to the monitor lizards of today. They were apex predators living almost entirely in fish and often attacking other marine reptiles such as Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs.

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  • Mosasaur
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  • Mosasaurs are a type of large aquatic seagoing reptiles indigenous to the Cretaceous era of history. They are a member of the order Squamata, distantly related to the monitor lizards of today. They were apex predators living almost entirely in fish and often attacking other marine reptiles such as Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs.
  • Mosasaurs are a group of extinct lizards that make up the family Mosasauridae. Mosasaurs were typically very large, aquatic predators and appear to be the apex predators of the oceans from the Turonian to Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous period. The mosasaurs went extinct during the K-Pg extinction event along with plesiosaurs, non-avian dinosaurs and various other forms of life around the world; although relatives, the varanids, are still extant.
  • Mosasaurs were serpentine marine reptiles and ferocious predators from the Cretaceous period.
  • Mosasaurs, from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river' in the Netherlands, where the first fossil remains were discovered about 1780, and Greek sauros meaning 'lizard', were serpentine marine reptiles. These ferocious marine predators are considered by some experts to be closely related to snakes, due to extreme similarities in jaw and skull anatomies. Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs but lepidosaurs, reptiles with overlapping scales. These predators evolved from semi-aquatic squamates known as the aigialosaurs, close relatives of modern-day monitor lizards, in the Early Cretaceous Period. During the last 25 million years of the Cretaceous Period (Turonian-Maastrichtian), with the extinction of the last ichthyosaurs and the decline of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurs became th
  • When it came to be the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous, which brought the extinction of a few other marine predators, the Mosasaur became the dominant marine species. The Mosasaur was able to breath air, was a powerful swimmer, and were easily able to adapt to warm, shallow seas. Mosasaurs had a double-hinged jaw and a flexible skull, making them somewhat similar to modern day snakes. This helped them to easily gulp down their prey nearly whole.
  • Mosasaurs (from Latin 'Mosa' meaning the 'Meuse river' in the Netherlands, and Greek sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of serpentine marine reptiles that thrived worldwide in the earth's oceans during the Cretaceous Period. The first fossilized remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1778, and the first genus of mosasaur, Mosasaurus, was named. These ferocious marine predators are now considered to be the closest relatives of snakes, due to cladistic analysis of symptomatic similarities in jaw and skull anatomies. Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs, but lepidosaurs, reptiles with overlapping scales. These predators evolved from semi-aquatic squamates known as the aigialosaurs, close relatives of modern-day monitor lizards, in the Early Cretaceous P
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  • *Halisaurinae *Mosasaurinae *Plioplatecarpinae *Tylosaurinae
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  • Mosasauridae
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  • Extinct
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  • Animalia
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  • Mosasaurs
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  • Mosasaurus
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  • Aquatic reptile
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  • An etching of Mosasaur
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  • Fossil
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  • Mosasaurs
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  • pink
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Time Period
  • Late Cretaceous period
Family
  • Mosasauridae
  • Mosasauridae (Gervais, 1853)
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Diet
  • Carnivorous
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