Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Parent taxon: Mosasauridae according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Bardet et al. 2005, Bardet et al. 2006, Bell et al. 2013, Caldwell et al. 2008, Driscoll et al. 2019, Grigoriev and Grabovskiy 2020, Hay 1902, Hornung et al. 2018, Kuhn 1966, Lindgren and Siverson 2002, Martin and Crame 2006, Otero et al. 2017, Plasse et al. 2024, Polcyn and Bell 2005, Romano et al. 2019, Russell 1967, Thurmond 1969, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Welles and Gregg 1971
Sister taxa: Amphorosteus, Amphorosteus brumbyi, Clidastes iguanavus, Compressidens, Globidentinae, Haasiasaurus, Halisaurinae, Halisauromorpha, Liodon congrops, Mosasaurinae, Mosasaurus crassidens, Mosasaurus mitchillii, Mosasaurus platyodon, Platecarpinae, Prognathosaurus, Russellosaurina, Tylosaurus capensis, Yaguarasaurinae
Subtaxa: Hainosaurus Hainosaurus lonzeensis Kaikaifilu Taniwhasaurus Tylosaurus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), Antarctica (4), Belgium (3), Canada (3: Manitoba, Saskatchewan), France (4), Germany (5), Italy (1), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (5), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sweden (10), United States (44: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 92 collections including 99 occurrences