†Russellosaurus coheni Polcyn and Bell 2005 (mosasaur)
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Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Full reference: M. J. Polcyn and G. L. Bell. 2005. Russellosaurus coheni n. gen., n. sp., a 92 million-year-old mosasaur from Texas (USA), and the definition of the parafamily Russellosaurina. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):321-333
Belongs to Russellosaurus according to F. Fanti et al. 2014
See also Driscoll et al. 2019 and Polcyn and Bell 2005
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMU73056, a skull. Its type locality is Cedar Hill, SMU Loc. 259, which is in a Turonian marine shale in the Arcadia Park Shale Formation of Texas.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cedar Hill, SMU Loc. 259
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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