Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Alternative combinations: Hainosaurus gaudryi, Tylosaurus gaudryi
Belongs to Mosasaurus according to Thevenin 1896
See also Bullard and Caldwell 2010, Driscoll et al. 2019 and Russell 1967
Sister taxa: Mosasaurus beaugei, Mosasaurus caroliniensis, Mosasaurus conodon, Mosasaurus couperi, Mosasaurus dekayi, Mosasaurus depressus, Mosasaurus flemingi, Mosasaurus gracilis, Mosasaurus grosjeani, Mosasaurus hobetsuensis, Mosasaurus hoffmannii, Mosasaurus horridus, Mosasaurus impar, Mosasaurus ivoensis, Mosasaurus lemonnieri, Mosasaurus lonzeensis, Mosasaurus minor, Mosasaurus missouriensis, Mosasaurus mokoroa, Mosasaurus occidentalis, Mosasaurus prismaticus, Mosasaurus reversus, Mosasaurus scanicus, Nectoportheus validus, Amphekepubis johnsoni, Macrosaurus validus, Macrosaurus laevis
Type specimen: MNHN 1896-15, a partial skull (Large anterior portion of a cranium). Its type locality is Vaux-Eclusier, which is in a Santonian carbonate chalk in France.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Vaux-Eclusier
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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