| Hainosaurus bernardi Temporal range: Late Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous
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| Hainosaurus bernardi, artist reconstruction | |
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| Species: | H. bernardi
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| Hainosaurus bernardi Dollo, 1885
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Hainosaurus bernardi is an extinct species of large, predatory marine lizard, belonging to the subfamily Tylosaurinae within the family Mosasauridae. With a skull-length of up to 1.5 meters it was one of the largest mosasaurs[1]. The species is known principally from two skulls and partial postcranial skeletons from the Late Maastrichtian of Belgium[1].
Taxonomy
editThe species was named and described by Louis Dollo in 1885[2][3]. H. bernardi is the only species in his genus that is currently known from sufficient material and formally named. Isolated fossil material from central Europe, ranging in age from the Campanian to Late Maastrichtian indicates the potential presence of more species but these are at present to poorly known. Other species formerly assigned to Hainosaurus were referred to the genus Tylosaurus instead.
References
edit- ^ a b Lingham-Soliar, T. 1992. The tylosaurine mosasaurs (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe and Africa. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre, 62: 171-194.
- ^ Dollo, L. 1885. Le Hainosaure. Revue des Questions Scientifiques, 18: 285-289.
- ^ Dollo, L. 1885. Première note sur le hainosaure. Bulletin du Musée d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique, 4: 25-35.