Brachysaurana

Brachysaurana 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 Clidastes. Although traditionally synonymized with Prognathodon, recent cladistic studies do not find it closely related to the Prognathodon type species to the exclusion of other prognathodontin mosasaurines.[1][2]

Brachysaurana
Temporal range: Campanian,
B. overtoni fossil at Royal Tyrrell Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Superfamily: †Mosasauroidea
Family: †Mosasauridae
Subfamily: †Mosasaurinae
Genus: †Brachysaurana
Strand, 1926
Type species
†Brachysaurus overtoni
Williston, 1897
Synonyms
  • Brachysaurus Williston, 1897
  • Ancylocentrum (Schmidt, 1927)

References
  1. Russell, Dale A. (2020) [1967]. Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs (facsimile ed.). Yale University Press. pp. 209–210. doi:10.12987/9781933789453. JSTOR j.ctvxkn75d.
  2. Longrich, Nicholas R.; Jalil, Nour-Eddine; Khaldoune, Fatima; Yazami, Oussama Khadiri; Pereda-Suberbiola, Xabier & Bardet, Nathalie (2022). "Thalassotitan atrox, a giant predatory mosasaurid (Squamata) from the Upper Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco". Cretaceous Research. 140: 105315. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105315. S2CID 251821884.
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