Named Mosasaurs
The mosasaurs
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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
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Halisaurus hebae
Halisaurus hebae is a new species of Halisaurus from the Maastrichtian of the Western Desert, in Egypt.
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Yaguarosaurus regiomontanus
A new species of plioplatecarpine from the Turonian of Nuevo Leon Mexico
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Stelladens mysteriosus
Stelladens has strange teeth shaped like a Phillips-head screwdriver
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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
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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.
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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.