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Mosasaur Mosasaur Mos"a*saur, Mosasaurian Mos`a*sau"ri*an, n.
(Paleon.)
One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and
allied genera. See 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.
Mosasaurian Mosasaur Mos"a*saur, Mosasaurian Mos`a*sau"ri*an, n.
(Paleon.)
One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and
allied genera. See Mosasauria.
Mosasaurus Mosasaurus Mos`a*sau"rus, n. [NL., fr. L. Mosa the River Meuse
(on which Meastricht is situated) + Gr. ? a lizard.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but
having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of
paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in
length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in
the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]
Mosasaurus Hofmanni Maestricht monitor Maes"tricht mon"i*tor [So called from
Maestricht, a town in Holland.] (Paleon.)
The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.
