FHSM VP-3366
Tylosaurus kansasensis (Everhart, 2005)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
TylosaurusPhylum
ChordataSpecies
kansasensisClass
ReptiliaAuthor
EverhartOrder
SquamataYear
2005Family
MosasauridaeCollected by
Bliss, R.L.Date Collected
1972-04-01Identified By
Everhart, M.J.Date Identified
2005Type
Number of Pieces
385Description
Skeleton; Partial Skeleton, ; Skull; Partial Skull, ; ; Rib, ; Vertebra; Unidentified,Locality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
GoveRemarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality informationGroup
ColoradoFormation
NiobraraMember
Smoky HillZone
Bed
Local Fauna
Chronostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Earliest Period
CretaceousLatest Period
CretaceousLowest Zone
Highest Zone
Publications (3 of 4)
Everhart, M.J., 2005. Tylosaurus kansasensis, a new species of tylosaurine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas, USA. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 84:231-240
Zietlow, Amelia R., 2020. Craniofacial ontogeny in Tylosaurinae. PeerJ. , 8:e10145
Everhart, M.J., 2008. A bitten skull of Tylosaurus kansasensis (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and a review of mosasaur-on-mosasaur pathologies in the fossil record. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 111:251-262
Place, A., 2020. A Comprehensive Review of the Morphological Diversity of the Quadrate Bone in Mosasauroids (Squamata: Mosasauroidea), with comments on the Homology of the Infrastapedial Process. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 40:e1879101