Mosasaurus Animal Facts

One skull discovered around 1780 was famously nicknamed the "great animal of Maastricht". In 1808, naturalist Georges Cuvier concluded that it belonged to a ...

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Their first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1764. They belong to the order Squamata, which includes lizards ...

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Peter's Mount, at Maestricht, Netherlands, uncovered the massive skull embedded in the rock sometime between 1770-74. They informed local ...

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The name “mosasaurus” means “Meuse lizard.” The rich Maastricht fossil beds keep yielding more surprises. The most recent issue of Nature ...

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The fossilized skull of a mosasaur, an aquatic reptile that lived some 66 million years ago when the area surrounding the present-day city was covered by a ...

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At 13m long and weighing close to 10 tons, it was the largest mosasaur (and by extension the largest lizard) to have ever existed. While it is ...

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The fossil was discovered in October 1778 close to the town of Maastricht, where soft limestones had been quarried since the Middle Ages in a large system of ...

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The Mosasaurus was a genus of small to monstrous sea-dwelling reptiles that lived in the waters of the Late Cretaceous oceans during the Maastrichtian geologic ...

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The story is told of how the first mosasaur was found deep in an underground mine near the River Meuse and purchased by Dr. JL Hoffmann.

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Mosasaurus Facts ; Other Name(s): great animal of Maastricht ; Habitat: shorelines, lagoons, shallow coastal waters ; Diet: Carnivore ; Lifestyle. Nocturnal ; Number ...

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