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| - thumb el mosasaurus fue un enorme mosasaurido que aterrizo las aguas del cretacico superior, y fue el superdepredador de su habitat.
- The type species was estimated to be 33' (10m) long. Mosasaurus had four paddle-like limbs on a long, streamlined body and a long, powerful tail. The large head had huge jaws, up to 4 ft (1.2 m long) with many teeth. The jaws could open about 3 feet (1 m). The lower jaw is loosely hinged to the skull with a moveable joint on each side (behind the teeth). This loose joint let it swallow huge prey. They would have hunted fish, turtles, molluscs, and shellfish. Ammonites have been found bearing mosasaur teeth marks.
- Mosasaurus ("lizard of the Meuse River") was a genus of mosasaur, a carnivorous, aquatic lizard, somewhat resembling a flippered crocodile, with elongated heavy jaws. The genus lived in the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period (Mesozoic era), around 70-65 millions years ago in the area of modern Western Europe. The genus Capelliniosuchus, once thought to be a metriorhynchid crocodylian, is a junior synonym of Mosasaurus.
- Mosasaurus is a type of water-based enemy in Dino Crisis 2. They are one of the water creatures players will face, the other being Plesiosaurus.
- Mosasaurus are gigantic marine reptiles that live in the seas and use flippers for swimming. However, in Dinotopia, they are depicted to look like large crocodiles (similar to Deinosuchus, Sarcosuchus, or Kaprosuchus) with legs and living in fresh water.
- Mosasaurus est un genre éteint de reptiles de la famille des Mosasauridae. Mosasaurus (littéralement « lézard de la Meuse », du fait de sa première découverte en 1766 à proximité de Maastricht, ville traversée par la Meuse) est un reptile géant aux allures de lézard qui vivait au Mésozoïque, au Crétacé jusqu'à la fin du Maastrichtien (environ -70 à -65 millions d'années). C'est un proche parent des varanidés et des serpents. Comme les baleines et les dauphins, les mosasaurus étaient adaptés à la vie marine et respiraient à l'air libre. Mesurant 18 mètres de long et pesant 15 tonnes, il était le plus gros mosasauridé et occupait le sommet des chaînes alimentaires, il chassait des tortues, des plésiosauridés, des ptérosaures, des calmars, des poissons et des mosasauridés plus petits.Les mosa
- Mosasaurus was among the last of the mosasaurids, and among the largest. As with most mosasaurids, the legs and feet of Mosasaurus were modified into flippers, and the front flippers were larger than the hind flippers. The largest known species, Mosasaurus hoffmannii, reached lengths up to 18 metres (59 ft), slightly longer than its relatives Tylosaurus and Hainosaurus. Mosasaurus was also more robust than related mosasaurids. The skull was more robust than in other mosasaurids, and the lower jaws (mandibles) attached very tightly to the skull. They had deep, barrel-shaped bodies, and with their fairly large eyes, poor binocular vision, and poorly developed olfactory bulbs, experts believe that Mosasaurus lived near the ocean surface, where they preyed on fish, turtles, ammonites, smaller
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| Species
| - *M. iguanavus
*M. poultneyi (Martin,1953)
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- *M. beaugei (Armbourg, 1952)
*M. copeanus (Marsh, 1869)
*M. crassidens (Marsh, 1870)
*M. dekayi (Bronn, 1838)
*M. giganteus
*M. gracilis (Owen, 1851)
*M. hardenponti
*M. hobetsuensis (Suzuki, 1985)
*M. hoffmannii (Mantell, 1829 )
*M. johnsoni
*M. lemonnieri (Dollo, 1889)
*M. lonzeensis (Dollo, 1904)
*M. lundgreni
*M. meirsii (Marsh, 1869)
*M. missouriensis
*M. mokoroa (Welles & Gregg, 1971)
*M. neovidii (von Meyer, 1845)
*M. prismaticus
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