#NewSpecies of #Mosasaur Identified in #Utah https://www.sci.news/paleontology/sarabosaurus-dahli-12021.html

A new lower #Turonian #mosasaurid from the #WesternInteriorSeaway and the antiquity of the unique basicranial circulation pattern in Plioplatecarpinae https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667123001490

"#Mosasaurs were a group of large predatory marine #reptiles that inhabited all of the world’s oceans during the Late #Cretaceous epoch, between 90 and 66 million years ago. These creatures went #extinct during the end-Cretaceous #extinction."