The oldest tylosaurine mosasaur (Reptilia; Lacertilia) from the Late Cretaceous of Belgium: Hermann von Meyer (1860) revisited

Authors
Mulder, EWA Mai, H
Citation
Ewa. Mulder et H. Mai, The oldest tylosaurine mosasaur (Reptilia; Lacertilia) from the Late Cretaceous of Belgium: Hermann von Meyer (1860) revisited, GEOL MIJNB, 78(2), 1999, pp. 207-213
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW
ISSN journal
00167746 → ACNP
Volume
78
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
207 - 213
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7746(1999)78:2<207:TOTM(L>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
A mosasaurid parietal from the Late Cretaceous of Belgium, originally descr ibed by Von Meyer (1860), turns out to be assignable to the tylosaurine Hai nosaurus cf. bernardi Dollo 1885. A small sediment sample, extracted from t he bone, was analysed for coccoliths and revealed its early Late Campanian age. This is thus the earliest record of a tylosaurine mosasaur from Belgiu m.