Named Mosasaurs

The mosasaurs

  • Khinjaria acuta (Longrich et al. 2024) by Nick Longrich

    Khinjaria acuta

    Khinjaria acuta is a freakish animal, with a short face full of dagger-like teeth and a long skull to anchor powerul jaw muscles, it was a dangerous predator, in a time when the seas were full of dangerous predators

  • Halisaurus hebae by Nick Longrich

    Halisaurus hebae

    Halisaurus hebae is a new species of Halisaurus from the Maastrichtian of the Western Desert, in Egypt.

  • Yaguarosaurus regiomontanus photograph by Nick Longrich

    Yaguarosaurus regiomontanus

    A new species of plioplatecarpine from the Turonian of Nuevo Leon Mexico

  • Stelladens mysteriosus Longrich et al. 2023, by Nick Longrich

    Stelladens mysteriosus

    Stelladens has strange teeth shaped like a Phillips-head screwdriver

  • Thalassotitan atrox (Longrich et al. 2022) by Andrey Atuchin

    Thalassotitan atrox

    The seas of the late Maastrichtian were full of big, dangerous predators, and Thalassotitan may have been the biggest and most dangerous of all- the mosasaur that ate all the other mosasaurs

  • Pluridens serpentis (Longrich et al. 2021) by Andrey Atuchin

    Pluridens serpentis

    Pluridens serpentis is a large member of the Halisaurinae. With long jaws full of lots of teeth it probably fed on small prey- little fish, squid, belemnites. Small eyes and a nose full of nerve endings suggest it relied on cues other than sight to find its prey.

  • Xenodens calminechari Longrich et al. 2021, by Andrey Atuchin

    Xenodens calminechari

    Xenodens was an odd, highly specialized ittle mosasaur. The teeth were narrow, bladelike, and packed edge-to-edge to create a sawlike cutting edge.