Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Parent taxon: Mosasauridae according to G. L. Bell et al. 2013
See also Antunes 1964, Bardet et al. 2005, Bell and Polcyn 2005, Hay 1902, Karl and Nyhuis 2012, Kuhn 1966, Lingham-Soliar 1995, Mateus et al. 2012, Nicholls and Meckert 2002, Russell 1970, Schulp et al. 2008, Thurmond 1969 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Amphorosteus brumbyi, Clidastes iguanavus, Globidentinae, Goronyosaurus, Haasiasaurus, Halisaurinae, Halisauromorpha, Halisaurus, Kourisodon, Leptosaurus, Liodon anceps, Liodon congrops, Mosasaurus crassidens, Mosasaurus mitchillii, Mosasaurus platyodon, Natantia, Platecarpinae, Polygonodon, Prognathosaurus, Russellosaurina, Yaguarasaurinae
Subtaxa: Clidastes Clidastes liodontus Clidastes moorevillensis Dallasaurus Globidensini Leiodontini Mosasaurini Plesiotylosaurus Plotosaurini
Type: Mosasaurus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (2 collections), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (4), Argentina (1), Belgium (6), Bulgaria (1), Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Denmark (3), Egypt (1), France (7), Germany (6), Israel (1), Italy (4), Japan (5), Jordan (3), Mexico (2), Morocco (10), the Netherlands (4), New Zealand (4), Niger (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Sweden (8), Syria (7), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (87: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas), Zaire (2)
Total: 196 collections including 262 occurrences