State Fossils - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society
On April 4, 2014, the Tylosaurus became the official state marine fossil and the Pteranodon the official state flying fossil. The Tylosaurus is a giant mosasaur, which inhabited the sea that covered portions of Kansas during the Late Crestaceous period …
Tylosaurus - Wikipedia
Tylosaurus (/ ˌ t aɪ ˈ l oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; "knob lizard" [a]) is a genus of russellosaurine mosasaur (an extinct group of predatory marine lizards) that lived about 92 to 66 million years ago during the Turonian to Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous.Its fossils have been found primarily around North Atlantic Ocean including in North America, Europe, and Africa.
Tylosaurus - Prehistoric Wiki | Fandom
Tylosaurus catches a pterosaur. Credit: R.J. Palmer. Stomach contents extracted from Tylosaurus remains suggest the animal had a wide diet, from fish and sharks, to plesiosaurs, flightless birds like Hesperornis and even smaller mosasaurs.
Frontiers | A New Hypothesis of the Phylogenetic Relationships of …
2019年3月26日 · Tylosaurinae (Williston, 1897), is reconstructed in most analyses as the sister group of the Plioplatecarpinae (Dollo, 1884). The most distinctive characteristic of the group is an elongated edentulous rostrum on the premaxilla.
Tylosaurus - Ancient Animals Wiki
Tylosaurus was a predator, preying on fish, cephalopods, turtles, diving birds, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, and smaller mosasaurs. Its teeth had knife-like serrations from front to back, and were used to cut into the hides of large prey; as well as this, behind its huge jaws, it had a second set of teeth, mainly for capturing prey and ensuring it ...
海王龙 - 百度百科
海王龙（Tylosaurus）又名瘤龙、节龙，意为“有瘤的蜥蜴”，属于沧龙科海王龙亚科，是沧龙类的一类，是一种巨大的肉食性动物。 海王龙虽然不是恐龙，但是，它们与恐龙在同一时期生活，并在第五次生物大灭绝（白垩纪大灭绝）中灭绝。
identify the Tylosaurus and Pteranodon as the two state fossils of Kansas, and 2. estimate and check the wingspan of the Pteranodon or the length of the Tylosaurus .
Fossils | KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
The largest mosasaur found, Tylosaurus, was a marine reptile fossil discovered in Kansas and is the Official State Marine Fossil of Kansas. A 45-foot-long cast of this fossil looms over the 4th floor museum entrance.
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary …
Here, we describe a new and large Jurassic pterosaur, Skiphosoura bavarica gen. et sp. nov., preserved in three dimensions, that helps bridge the gap between current intermediate pterosaurs and the pterodactyloids. A new phylogeny shows that there is a general progression of key characteristics of increasing head size, increasing length of neck ...
Tylosaurus, Globidens, Plotosaurus and the Mosasaurs - Reptile …
These broad ribs and sternum anchored powerful pectoral muscles to the front paddles. Tethysaurus nopscai (Bardet, Pereda-Superbiola and Jalil 2003) was a small 3 m (9.8 ft) mosasaur from the Early Turonian (Late Cretaceous. It was initially considered a basal mosasaur, but now considered a derived form.