Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Parent taxon: Mosasauridae according to A. R. Zietlow et al. 2023
See also AbdelGawad et al. 2021, Antunes 1964, Bardet et al. 2004, Bardet et al. 2005, Bardet et al. 2005, Bell and Polcyn 2005, Bell et al. 2013, Driscoll et al. 2019, Fernández et al. 2008, Frey et al. 2016, Garzon et al. 2024, González Ruiz et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hornung et al. 2018, Karl and Nyhuis 2012, Konishi et al. 2011, Kuhn 1966, Lingham-Soliar 1995, Lively 2018, Lively 2020, Longrich et al. 2024, Martin and Crame 2006, Mateus et al. 2012, Nicholls and Meckert 2002, Otero 2021, O’Gorman et al. 2023, Russell 1970, Schulp et al. 2009, Schulp et al. 2004, Schulp et al. 2008, Thurmond 1969, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Welles and Gregg 1971, Wiffen 1980 and Wiffen 1990
Sister taxa: Amphorosteus, Amphorosteus brumbyi, Clidastes iguanavus, Compressidens, Globidentinae, Haasiasaurus, Halisaurinae, Halisauromorpha, Liodon congrops, Mosasaurus crassidens, Mosasaurus mitchillii, Mosasaurus platyodon, Platecarpinae, Prognathosaurus, Russellosaurina, Tylosaurinae, Tylosaurus capensis, Yaguarasaurinae
Subtaxa: Clidastes Dallasaurus Globidensini Globindensini Gnathomortis Igdamanosaurus Jormungandr Kourisodon Leiodon Leiodontini Megapterygius Moanasaurus Mosasaurini Mosasaurus Plesiotylosaurus Plotosaurini Polygonodon Prognathodontini Rikisaurus Stelladens Xenodens
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (2 collections), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (3), Antarctica (5), Argentina (4), Belgium (8), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cuba (2), Denmark (5), Ecuador (1), Egypt (4), France (8), Germany (7), Israel (2), Italy (4), Japan (10), Jordan (3), Mexico (2), Morocco (12), the Netherlands (8), New Zealand (12), Niger (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (2), Spain (6), Sweden (9), Syria (8), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (98: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 259 collections including 376 occurrences