FHSM VP-2295
Tylosaurus kansasensis (Everhart, 2005)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
TylosaurusPhylum
ChordataSpecies
kansasensisClass
ReptiliaAuthor
EverhartOrder
SquamataYear
2005Family
MosasauridaeCollected by
Walker, M.V.Date Collected
1968-11-01Identified By
Bell, G.L.Date Identified
1990-07-15Type
Number of Pieces
122Description
; Skull, ; ; Vertebra,Locality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
EllisRemarks
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 10)
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
Kansas Academy of Science, . 2007. Abstracts of the 139th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kansas, April 13-14. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science , 110:293-311
Kansas Academy of Science, . 2008. Abstracts of the 140th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, March 28-29. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science , 111:165-192
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
Everhart, M.J., 2005. Earliest record of the genus Tylosaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Fort Hays Limestone (Lower Coniacian) of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 108:149-155
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
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