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Definition of Mosasauria

Mosasauria
Mosasauria Mos`a*sau"ri*a, n. pl. [NL. See Mosasaurus.] (Paleon.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
Mosasauria
Mosasauria Mos`a*sau"ri*a, n. pl. [NL. See Mosasaurus.] (Paleon.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.

Meaning of Mosasauria from wikipedia

- recovered Mosasauria as a sister clade to Serpentes. Another approach was developed by R. Alexander Pyron in a 2016 study, which also recovered Mosasauria as...
- Serpentes †Mosasauria...
- morphological and molecular analysis by Reeder et al. (2015) recovered Mosasauria and Serpentes as sisters, consistent with Pythonomorpha. Everhart, M....
- Other reptiles Taxa Presence Notes Images Mosasauria indet Caudal vertebra, initially misidentified as the vertebra of a pterosaur Dyrosauridae Abundant...
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- †Mosasauria Serpentes...
- Oculudentavis as the sister group of (1) the Dibamidae, (2) Scandensia, and (3) Mosasauria, depending on whether multi-state characteristics were treated as (1)...
- Yi; Mark Norell (2019). "The bony labyrinth of Platecarpus (Squamata: Mosasauria) and aquatic adaptations in squamate reptiles". Palaeoworld. 28 (4): 550–561...
-  Niger Pluridens walkeri Lapurr Sandstone Campanian-Maastrichtian  Kenya Mosasauria indet. Ouled Abdoun Basin Maastrichtian  Morocco Eremiasaurus heterodontus...