Another reptile groupMosasaurCarnivore
Megapterygius
Giant sea lizards that ruled the oceans of the Late Cretaceous. The largest topped 10 metres, and they died out together with the dinosaurs.
Who it is related to: Part of the group of today's lizards and snakes, so closer to monitor lizards than to any dinosaur.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Mosasaurs
- Family
- Mosasauridae
- When it lived
- 66–83.6 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Campanian – Maastrichtian
- Named by
- Konishi et al., 2023
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- Japan
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata