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A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon ‘Platecarpus’ ptychodon
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Strong, Catherine R. C., Caldwell, Michael W., Konishi, Takuya, Palci, Alessandro
This is the accepted (i.e., postprint; post-peer review) version of the following article: Strong, C. R. C., Caldwell, M. W., Konishi, T., & Palci, A. (2020). A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a...
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2010
Lindgren, Johan, Konishi, Takuya, Chiappe, Luis M., Caldwell, Michael W.
Mosasaurs (family Mosasauridae) are a diverse group of secondarily aquatic lizards that radiated into marine environments during the Late Cretaceous (98–65 million years ago). For the most part, they have been considered to be simple anguilliform swimmers – i.e., their propulsive force was...
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Fall 2009
The name, mosasaurs, generally refers to a group of extinct, highly aquatically adapted and large-bodied squamates that lived exclusively during the Late Cretaceous, approximately from 93 to 65 million years ago, in the oceans worldwide. Plioplatecarpines (Plioplatecarpinae) were medium-sized...