FHSM VP-2495
Tylosaurus kansasensis (Everhart, 2005)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
TylosaurusPhylum
ChordataSpecies
kansasensisClass
ReptiliaAuthor
EverhartOrder
SquamataYear
2005Family
MosasauridaeCollected by
Zakrzewski, R.J.Date Collected
1969-11-08Identified By
Everhart, M.J.Date Identified
2005Type
Number of Pieces
400+Description
Skeleton; Partial Skeleton,Locality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
TregoRemarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality informationGroup
ColoradoFormation
NiobraraMember
Smoky HillZone
Bed
Local Fauna
Bug CreekChronostratigraphy
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
Konishi, T., Caldwell, M.W. 2011. Two new plioplatecarpine (Squamata: Mosasauridae) genera from the upper Cretaceous of North America, and global phylogenetic analysis of plioplatecarpines. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31:754-783
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