Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Full reference: T. Konishi, M. W. Caldwell, T. Nishimura, K. Sakurai, and K. Tanoue. 2016. A new halisaurine mosasaur (Squamata: Halisaurinae) from Japan: the first record in the western Pacific realm and the first documented insights into binocular vision in mosasaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(10):809-839

Belongs to Phosphorosaurus according to D. A. Driscoll et al. 2019

See also Konishi et al. 2016

Sister taxon: Phosphorosaurus ortliebi

Type specimen: HMG-1528, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Pankerusano-sawa Creek (Locality A), which is in a Maastrichtian marine carbonate in the Hakobuchi Formation of Japan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pankerusano-sawa Creek (Locality A)

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