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Description
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Overview
- Genus
- Russellosaurine Russellosaurina
- Mosasaurs Mosasaur
- Squamates Squamata
- Turonian
- Maastrichtian
- Late Cretaceous
- North Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Europe
- Africa
- Edward Drinker Cope
- Halisaurus
- Othniel Charles Marsh
- Apex predator
- Fish
- Ornithuran
- Sea turtles Sea turtle
- Plesiosaurs Plesiosaur
- Endothermic Endotherm
- Squamates Squamate
- Edentulous Toothlessness
- Rostrum Rostrum (anatomy)
- Ventral view Anatomical terms of location
- Trigeminal nerves
- Foramina Foramen
- Gum line
- Dorsal view Dorsal (anatomy)
- Mandibles
- Cranium
Research history
- Native American Native Americans in the United States
- Folklore
- Arrival of European settlers European colonization of the Americas
- Great Plains
- Thunderbirds Thunderbird (mythology)
- Petrified Petrifaction
- Pterosaurs Pterosaur
- Pteranodon
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Missouri River
- Richard Ellis Richard Ellis (biologist)
- Tylosaurine
- Elasmosaurid
- Kansas
- Bone Wars
- Type specimen
- Niobrara Formation
- Monument Rocks Monument Rocks (Kansas)
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Fort Hays
- Louis Agassiz
- MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
- Specific name Specific name (zoology)
- Liodon
- Portmanteau
- Joseph Leidy
- Benjamin Franklin Mudge
- Solomon River
- Dorsal vertebra
Description
- Derived Primitive (phylogenetics)
- Sea snakes Sea snake
- Marine crocodylomorphs Thalattosuchia
- Archaeocete whales Archaeoceti
- Convergent evolution
- Cope's rule
- Coniacian
- Santonian
- Campanian
- Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre
- Guinness World Records
- Ectenosaurus
- Prognathodon overtoni
- Scapula
- Coracoid
- Pubic Pubis (bone)
- Stylopodia Stylopodium
- Carpal Carpal bones
- Tarsal bones Tarsus (skeleton)
- Unossified Cartilage
- Ulnare
- Hyperphalangy
- Spindle Spindle (textiles)
- Hourglass
- Mosasaurines Mosasaurinae
- Pisiform Pisiform bone
- Vertebrae Vertebra
- Caudal Caudal vertebrae
- Ilium Ilium (bone)
- Plioplatecarpines Plioplatecarpinae
Classification
- Mosasauridae
- Mosasauroidea
- Type genus
- Subfamily
- Tylosaurinae
- Kaikaifilu
- Tethysaurinae
- Yaguarasaurinae
- Halisauromorpha
- TMM Texas Memorial Museum
- Arcadia Park Shale
- Index fossils
- Incertae sedis
- Ojinaga Formation
- Chihuahua, Mexico Chihuahua (state)
- Nasiłów, Poland Nasiłów
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Bayesian analysis Bayesian inference in phylogeny
- Pliosaurs Pliosaur
- Polycotylids Polycotylid
- Western Interior Seaway
- Chronospecies
- Anagenesis
- Sister species Sister group
- Ontogeny
- Paedomorph Neoteny
- Peramorphosis
- Cladograms Cladogram
- Paraphyletic
Paleobiology
- Interdigitations Interdigitation
- Shear area Shear stress
- Buttress
- Strut
- Battering ram
- Bottlenose dolphins
- Orcas Orca
- Sexual selection
- Sexual dimorphism
- Ophthalmic nerve
- CT scans CT scan
- Mechanosensory Mechanosensation
- Electrosensory
- Associated with pathways for blood supply Neurovascular unit
- Thermoregulation
- Gave birth to live young Viviparity
- Carsosaurus
- Neonate
- Skeletochronology
- Poikilothermic Poikilotherm
- Sauropsids Sauropsid
- Logarithmic growth
- Sexual maturity
- Allometry
- Analysis of covariance
- Isometry
- Remodel Ossification
- Statistical tests Spearman's rho
- Amniote
- Embryogenesis
Paleoecology
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Nodes336
Edges335
Triples415
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005952
Components1
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Tylosaurus
Top relations
related to First formal discoveries · 59
Tylosaurus → Academy, Acquired, After, Agassiz, Amelia, AMNH, Ancient Greek, Army, As, August, Benjamin Franklin Mudge, Bone Wars, Clidastes, Cope, Cope's, Despite, Edward Drinker Cope, European, Everhart, For
related to Taxonomy · 34
Tylosaurus → Although, Arcadia Park Shale, Bell, Chihuahua, Cretaceous, Currently, Hainosaurus, Halisauromorpha, Kaikaifilu, Late Maastrichtian, Mexico, Middle Turonian, Mosasauridae, Mosasaurinae, Mosasauroidea, Nasiłów, Ojinaga Formation, Other, Paleogene, Plioplatecarpinae
related to Habitat preference · 31
Tylosaurus → Alabama, Analysis, Based, Biogeochemical, Both, Campanian, Carbon-13, Clidastes, Harrell, However, Isotope, Kiernan, Mosasaurus, Niobrara Formation, On, Platecarpus, Plioplatecarpus, Polcyn, Pérez-Huerta, REE
related to Size · 30
Tylosaurus → Bruce, Bullard, Bunker, By, Caldwell, Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, Coniacian, Cope's, During, Early Campanian, Everhart, Guinness World Records, However, In North America, Kansas Natural History Museum, KUVP, Large Tylosaurus, Largest, Lindgren, More
related to Later discoveries and other species · 26
Tylosaurus → Although, Belgium, Caldwell, Canada, Ciply Basin, Dale, Elizabeth Nicholls, Haine, Hainosaurus, However, In, IRSNB R23, Johan Lindgren, Leopold Bernard, Louis Dollo, Manitoba, Mesvin, Michael Caldwell, MT, Paulina Jimenez-Huidobro
related to Paleoecology · 24
Tylosaurus → Angola, Congo, Coniacian, Cretaceous, Democratic Republic, Europe, Hainosaurus, ICZN, Maastrichtian, Mediterranean Tethys, Moroccan, Morocco, Much, North America, North Atlantic, North Atlantic Circle Basin, Ouled Abdoun Basin, Paleogene, The, There
related to Function of edentulous rostrum · 21
Tylosaurus → An, But, CT, He, Herrera, In, It, Konishi, Likewise, Lingham-Soliar, Lingham-Soliar's, Mosasaurus, Paleontologist Gordon Bell, Paulina-Carabajal, Russell, Similar, Taniwhasaurus, The, They, This
related to Phylogeny and evolution · 21
Tylosaurus → Based, Bayesian, Caldwell, Cau, First, However, In, Instead, Jiménez-Huidobro, Madiza, Madzia, Plioplatecarpinae, Second, Simões, Taniwhasaurus, The, The Bayesian, The Tylosaurinae, This, Western Interior Seaway
related to Metabolism · 20
Tylosaurus → Analyzing, Argentine, Clidastes, Enchodus, Endothermy, Harrell, Huerta, Ichthyornis, Late Cretaceous, Mooreville Chalk, Nearly, Niobrara Formation, Platecarpus, Pérez, Smoky Hill Chalk Member, Suarez, The, This, Toxochelys, Tylosaurus's
related to Growth and development · 19
Tylosaurus → Both, Bunker, Carsosaurus, Clidastes, FHSM VP-14845, In, LAG, LAGs, Like, Mosasaurs, Pellegrini, Pellegrini's, Platecarpus, Plioplatecarpus, Scientists, Several, The, This, While
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Tylosaurus | is a | elongated edentulous rostrum that protrudes from its snout | 0.90 | text |
| Pteranodon in this region may have been the origins of these myths.In 1804 | instance of | The considerable presence of fossils of large mosasaurs such as Tylosaurus and pterosaurs | 0.80 | text |
| the Lewis | instance of | The considerable presence of fossils of large mosasaurs such as Tylosaurus and pterosaurs | 0.80 | text |
| Clark Expedition discovered a now-lost fossil skeleton alongside the Missouri River | instance of | The considerable presence of fossils of large mosasaurs such as Tylosaurus and pterosaurs | 0.80 | text |
| which was identified as a 45-foot | instance of | The considerable presence of fossils of large mosasaurs such as Tylosaurus and pterosaurs | 0.80 | text |
| a fully aquatic lifestyle | instance of | or a latecoming member with advanced evolutionary traits | 0.80 | text |
| ichthyosaurs | instance of | it is now understood that they were more similar in build to other large marine vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| marine crocodylomorphs | instance of | it is now understood that they were more similar in build to other large marine vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| and archaeocete whales through convergent evolution.SizeSome species of Tylosaurus are among the largest known mosasaurs | instance of | it is now understood that they were more similar in build to other large marine vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| a gradual change in the development of the quadrate bone | instance of | share minor and intermediate morphological differences | 0.80 | text |
| and lived in the same locations | instance of | share minor and intermediate morphological differences | 0.80 | text |
| increased stamina for foraging larger areas | instance of | Endothermy would have provided several advantages to Tylosaurus | 0.80 | text |
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