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, | |
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B. overtoni fossil at Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
Scientific 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 | |
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References
- 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.
- 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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