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Mosasaurus beaugei
Taxonomy
Mosasaurus beaugei was named by Arambourg (1952). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Oulad Abdoun Basin (Couche III, general), which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Phosphates Formation of Morocco.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1952 | Mosasaurus beaugei Arambourg |
| 2004 | Mosasaurus beaugei Bardet et al. p. 316 figs. 2-4 |
| 2019 | Mosasaurus beaugei Driscoll et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Mosasaurus beaugei Arambourg 1952
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Gervais 1852, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Syria | Mosasaurus beaugei (117863) | |
| Maastrichtian | Brazil (Pernambuco) | Mosasaurus beaugei (231323) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Morocco | Mosasaurus beaugei (99159 99627 type locality: 123268) |