Fossil mosasaur skeleton
Gallery Location
Not on View
Geography: Place Collected
North America, USA, Kansas, Logan County
Date
Date Collected: 1911
Dimensions
length=410; width=117; height=213 cm
Object number
ROMVP07904
Taxonomy
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Reptilia
- Order Squamata
- Family Mosasauridae
- Genus Platecarpus
- SpecificEpithet coryphaeus
Department
Natural History: Vertebrate Fossils
Description
Mosasaurs were predatory marine reptiles that lived during the age of dinosaurs. Their skeletons are very similar to those of the living monitor lizards, except that its hands and feet were modified into flippers. Their mouths were full of teeth for catching fish and squid.
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