Plesiotylosaurus
Sign in to savePlesiotylosaurus, meaning "near Tylosaurus", is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. It is classified as part of the Mosasaurinae subfamily, alongside genera like Mosasaurus and Prognathodon. The genus contains one species, Plesiotylosaurus crassidens, recovered from deposits of Middle Maastrichtian age in the Moreno Formation in California.
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Vinony's link graph records 73 inbound references to Plesiotylosaurus, and connects out to Prognathodon, Mosasaurus and Clidastes.
It is catalogued under topics including Fossil taxa described in 1942, Mosasaurines and Mosasaurs of North America.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Mosasauridae
- Image
- Plesiotylosaurus NT.jpg
- Length
- 6.5
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- taxon name
- Plesiotylosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Plesiotylosaurus
- start time
- 70000000-0
- end time
- 69000000-0
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