MOSASAURIDAE GERVAIS, 1853

Bardet, Nathalie, Suberbiola, Xabier Pereda, Iarochene, Mohamed, Bouya, Baadi & Amaghzaz, Mbarek, 2005, A new species of Halisaurus from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, and the phylogenetical relationships of the Halisaurinae (Squamata: Mosasauridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143 (3), pp. 447-472 : 449

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00152.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5490122
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HALISAURINAE BARDET & PEREDA SUBERBIOLA, NEW TAXON

HALISAURUS MARSH, 1869

Type species: Halisaurus platyspondylus Marsh, 1869 , Maastrichtian of New Jersey, USA ( Holmes & Sues, 2000).

Referred species: Halisaurus ortliebi ( Dollo, 1889) , Maastrichtian of Belgium ( Lingham-Soliar, 1996).

Emended diagnosis: See Discussion.

References

Dollo L. 1889. Premiere note sur les mosasauriens de Mesvin. Societe Belge de Geologie et de Mineralogie 3: 271 - 304.

Gervais P. 1853. Observations relatives aux reptiles fossiles de France. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris 36: 374 - 377, 470 - 474.

Holmes RB, Sues HD. 2000. A partial skeleton of the basal mosasaur Halisaurus platyspondylus from the Severn Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian) of Maryland). Journal of Paleontology 74: 309 - 316.

Lingham-Soliar T. 1996. The first description of Halisaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from Europe, from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 66: 129 - 136.

Marsh OC. 1869. Notice of some new mosasauroid reptiles from the greensand of New Jersey. American Journal of Science 48: 392 - 397.