Mosasaurus

Translingual

Etymology

    From Latin Mosa (“the river Meuse”) + -saurus. Coined by English geologist and palaeontologist William Daniel Conybeare in 1822 in a book by James Parkinson,[1] which makes some authories attribute the name to the later.[2]

    Proper noun

    Mosasaurus m

    1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mosasauridae – a mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous of Europe, North America, and possibly beyond.

    References

    1. ^ Conybeare, William Daniel (1822), “Fossil crocodiles and other saurian animals”, in James Parkinson, editor, An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains, volume 3, London, page 298
    2. ^ “Mosasaurus”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
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