Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Full reference: H. E. Rivera-Sylva, N. R. Longrich, J. M. Padilla-Gutierrez, J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez, V. M. Escalante-Hernández and J. G. González-. 2024. A new species of Yaguarasaurus (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) from the Agua Nueva Formation (Upper Turonian – ?Lower Coniacian) of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 133(104694)
Belongs to Yaguarasaurus according to H. E. Rivera-Sylva et al. 2024
Sister taxon: Yaguarasaurus columbianus
Type specimen: CPC 2972, a partial skull (Skull, missing the anterior rostrum and part of the right side). Its type locality is SW hill of Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon, which is in a Turonian/Turonian platform/shelf-margin reef limestone/claystone in the Agua Nueva Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at SW hill of Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon
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