Asprosaurus
Sign in to saveAsprosaurus () is an extinct genus of anguimorph lizard from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of South Korea. The genus contains a single species, A. bibongriensis, which is the first Mesozoic lizard to have been discovered on the Korean peninsula. Initially classified as a possible monstersaurian, Asprosaurus has been subsequently suggested to be a probable mosasauroid, an extinct group of marine lizards during the Late Cretaceous.
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Asprosaurus () is an extinct genus of anguimorph lizard from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of South Korea. The genus contains a single species, A. bibongriensis, which is the first Mesozoic lizard to have been discovered on the Korean peninsula. Initially classified as a possible monstersaurian, Asprosaurus has been subsequently suggested to be a probable mosasauroid, an extinct group of marine lizards during the Late Cretaceous.
==Discovery and naming== The holotype of Asprosaurus (KDRC-BB4) is an associated specimen consisting of partial cranial and postcranial material. Initially interpreted as a turtle fossil, it was discovered in 2000 from the Seonso Conglomerate, one of the rock units that form the Boseong Bibong-ri Dinosaur Egg Site which also yielded the fossils of an ornithischian dinosaur Koreanosaurus and over 200 dinosaur eggs.
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