FHSM VP-13742
Tylosaurus (Marsh, 1872)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
TylosaurusPhylum
ChordataSpecies
Class
ReptiliaAuthor
MarshOrder
SquamataYear
1872Family
MosasauridaeCollected by
Everhart, M.J.Date Collected
1990-06-12Identified By
Everhart, M.J.Date Identified
1990-06-27Type
Number of Pieces
486Description
Skeleton; Partial Skeleton,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 8)
Everhart, M.J., 2002. New data on cranial measurements and body length of the mosasaur Tylosaurus nepaeolicus (Squamata: Mosasauridae), from the Niobrara Formation of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 105:33-43
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
Everhart, M.J., Pearson, G.. 2014. An isolated squamate dorsal vertebra from the Late Cretaceous Greenhorn Formation of Mitchell County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science , 117:261-269
Konishi, T., Jimenez-Huidobro, P., Caldwell, M.W. 2018. The smallest-known neonate individual of Tylosaurus (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) sheds new light on the tylosaurine rostrum and heterochrony. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 38:1-11
Zietlow, Amelia R., 2020. Craniofacial ontogeny in Tylosaurinae. PeerJ. , 8:e10145
Everhart, M.J., 2001. Revisions to the biostratigraphy of the Mosasauridae (Squamata) in the Smoky Hill Chalk member of the Niobrara Chalk (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 104:59-78
Everhart, M.J., 2003. First records of plesiosaur remains in the lower Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Upper Coniacian) of the Niobrara Formation in western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 106:139-148
Everhart, M.J., 2005. Bite marks on an elasmosaur paddle from the Niobrara Chalk as probable evidence of feeding by the lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli. www.PalArch.nl., vertebrate paleontology, 2:14-24