Transatlantic latest Cretaceous Mosasaurs (Reptilia, Lacertilia) from the Maastrichtian type area and New Jersey

Authors
Mulder, EWA
Citation
Ewa. Mulder, Transatlantic latest Cretaceous Mosasaurs (Reptilia, Lacertilia) from the Maastrichtian type area and New Jersey, GEOL MIJNB, 78(3-4), 1999, pp. 281-300
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW
ISSN journal
00167746 → ACNP
Volume
78
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
281 - 300
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7746(1999)78:3-4<281:TLCM(L>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Cranial and postcranial elements of the mosasaurid reptiles Mosasaurus hoff manni Mantell 1829 and Plioplatecarpus marshi Dollo 1882 from the Maastrich tian type area, and of Mosasaurus maximus Cope 1869 and Plioplatecarpus dep ressus (Cope 1869) from New Jersey are compared. Views held by previous aut hors are discussed. It is concluded that these European and North American taxa are conspecific.