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Tethysaurinae
Taxonomy
Tethysaurinae was named by Makádi et al. (2012) [urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:A71608F3-EB46-4B25-89E2-050CD0A84EA1].
It was assigned to Mosasauroidea by Makádi et al. (2012), Garcia et al. (2015); and to Mosasauridae by Driscoll et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Mosasauroidea by Makádi et al. (2012), Garcia et al. (2015); and to Mosasauridae by Driscoll et al. (2019).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Tethysaurinae Makádi et al. p. 6 |
| 2015 | Tethysaurinae Garcia et al. p. 498 |
| 2019 | Tethysaurinae Driscoll et al. |
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Subfm. †Tethysaurinae Makádi et al. 2012
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G. †Pannoniasaurus Makádi et al. 2012
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†Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus Makádi et al. 2012
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Invalid names: Pannoniasaurus osii Jiménez-Huidobro and Caldwell 2016 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. Makádi et al. 2012 | Medium-sized (max. 6 meters) mosasauroids exhibiting combination of primitive characters: predental rostrum absent; premaxilla-maxilla suture ends anterior to or level with the midline of the fourth maxillary tooth; nearly straight fronto-parietal suture; quadrate alar concavity shallow; elongated stapedial pit (at least three times longer than wide); quadrate distal condyle saddle-shaped, upward deflection of quadrate distal condyle absent; mandibular glenoid formed mainly by articular; cervical synapophyses extend below ventral border of centrum; dorsoventrally compressed centra in precaudal vertebrae; two sacrals with large ribs/transverse processes subcircular/oval in cross-section; facet for ilium on tip of sacral transverse processes; very elongated (two times longer than wide) pontosaur-like caudal centra; anteroposteriorly narrow scapula; ilium with posterior iliac process with compressed dorsal end bearing longitudinal grooves and ridges, and spoon-shaped preacetabular process overlapping the pubis |
Measurements
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| Source: superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Turonian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 93.90000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Turonian | Morocco (Er-Rachidia) | Aigialosauridae indet. (103973) | |
| Late/Upper Turonian | Austria (Styria) | Tethysaurinae indet. (224480) | |
| Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian | Czechia | Tethysaurinae indet. (181008) | |
| Early/Lower Coniacian | Austria (Upper Austria) | Tethysaurinae indet. (224482) | |
| Santonian | Hungary (Veszprém) | Mosasauroidea indet. (48722) Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus (173313) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon) | Tethysaurinae indet. (47782) |