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Mosasaurus ivoensis

Reptilia - Mosasauridae

Taxonomy
Mosasaurus hoffmanni ivoensis was named by Russell (1967). Its type specimen is Swedish Museum of Natural History R1292, a tooth (Marginal tooth crown), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Mosasaurus ivoensis by Russell (1967); it was recombined as Tylosaurus ivoensis by Persson (1963), Lindgren and Siverson (2002) and Driscoll et al. (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Tylosaurus ivoensis Persson
1967Mosasaurus ivoensis Russell p. 135
2002Tylosaurus ivoensis Lindgren and Siverson p. 83
2019Tylosaurus ivoensis Driscoll et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Squamata()
familyMosasauridae
subfamilyMosasaurinaeGervais 1853
genusMosasaurus
speciesivoensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Mosasaurus ivoensis Russell 1967
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Diagnosis
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