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	Big Brook Mosasaur Page
		Mosasaur vertebrae are usually 3 to 5 cm (about 1.25 to 2 in) in length and have a diameter of about 4 cm (about 1.5 in).
		Mosasaur vertebrae are distinguishable from crocodile vertebra by the cylindrical shape, instead of the general conical shape of the vertebra of the crocodile.
		The scrappy reptilian bone of mosasaurs, sea turtles, "crocodiles", and plesiosaurs are similar and are all found at this locality.
	www.njfossils.net /mosasaur.html (1020 words)

	Mosasaur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mosasaurs had a loosely-hinged jaw which enabled them to swallow their prey almost whole, a snakelike feature that has helped identify the stomach contents fossilized within a Mosasaur skeleton, which included the diving seabird Hesperornis, a marine bony fish, a shark, and part of a smaller mosasaur.
		Mosasaur fossils have been found in the Netherlands and Sweden, in Africa, in Australia, New Zealand, and Vega Island off the coast of Antarctica.
		The first publicized discovery of a fossil mosasaur preceded any dinosaur fossil discoveries, and drew the Enlightenment's attention to the existence of fossilized animals; the specimen was discovered in 1780 by quarry-workers in a subterranean gallery who quickly alerted Doctor C.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mosasaur (764 words)

	Mosasaur- Enchanted Learning Software
		Some Mosasaurs include the Mosasaurus (40-59 ft. feet=12.5-17.6 m long with sharp teeth from the North Atlantic), Platecarpus, Tylosaurus (33-40 feet=10-12.3 m long with sharp teeth, from the North and South Atlantic), Plotosaurus, Clidastes, Plioplatecarpus, and Globidens (with flat teeth for crushing shellfish).
		Mosasaurs probably had scaly skin; fossil impressions of scales were found near the bones of Plotocarpus, showing a snake-like skin.
		Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers who spent their entires lives in the seas.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Mosasaur.shtml (948 words)

	Onion Creek Mosasaur - Exhibits - Hall of Geology and Paleontology - Texas Natural Science Center
		These were mosasaurs (MOSE-uh-sawrs), predatory, aggressive creatures which were probably the closest approach to the mythical "sea serpent" that ever existed.
		Mosasaurs have been extinct for about 65 million years, but their bones are common fossils in some parts of the world.
		The Onion Creek Mosasaur belonged to one of the larger species of mosasaurs, and one that lived only a short time before the last mosasaurs went extinct.
	www.utexas.edu /tmm/exhibits/mosasaur (288 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Sea Monsters - Fact File: Giant Mosasaur
		The mosasaurs were one of the success stories of the late Cretaceous period.
		As the mosasaurs were not fast swimmers they would have stalked their prey using natural cover provided by seaweed and rocks.
		One mosasaur fossil bears the marks of a shark bite in its spine.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/seamonsters/factfiles/giantmosasaur.shtml (190 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mosasaur
		Mosasaur, common name for any of a group of large, carnivorous marine lizards that occurred in all the world's oceans during Late Cretaceous times,...
		Unexpected discoveries of the fossilized bones of reptile-like creatures that were the contemporaries of dinosaurs have provided new insights about the variation and distribution of these creatures, scientists announced in the summer of 1999.
		allosaurus, ankylosaur, brachiosaurus, brontosaurus, cotylosaur, dicynodont, diplodocus, hadrosaur, ichthyosaur, iguanodon, megalosaur, mosasaur,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Mosasaur.html (119 words)

	Mosasaur Exhibit at the North Dakota Heritage Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mosasaurs were huge marine lizards, up to 40 feet in length, that inhabited the world's oceans during the cretaceous.
		Mosasaurs were huge, some as long as 40 feet, and inhabited the world's oceans during the Cretaceous Period from about 90 million years to 65 million years ago.
		Mosasaurs are believed to be closely related to the largest known lizards alive today, the Komodo dragons of Indonesia that measure up to 10 feet.
	www.state.nd.us /hist/mus/mosa.htm (424 words)

	Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre Largest Collection of Marine Reptile Fossils in Canada
		The mosasaur was a voracious fish-eater, cunningly adapted to its environment.
		The mosasaur also had a set of inner pterygoid teeth in the upper palate which were used to hold its prey.
		Mosasaurs are named after the Meuse River in Belgium where the fist mosasaur discovery was made.
	www.discoverfossils.com /CretaceousCreatures/Mosasaurs.html (681 words)

	CM Studio - Life-Size Sculptures - Mosasaur
		Mosasaurs breathed air, but were powerful swimmers, so well adapted to living in shallow seas that they gave birth to live young, rather than return to the shoreline to lay eggs, as sea turtles do.
		The smallest known mosasaur is Carinodens belgicus, which was about 3 to 3.5 m long and probably lived on the sea floor cracking mollusks and sea urchins with its bulbous teeth.
		Mosasaurs had a loosely-hinged jaw which enabled them to gulp down their prey almost whole, a snakelike habit that has helped identify the stomach contents fossilized within a Mosasaur skeleton, which included the diving seabird Hesperornis, a marine bony fish, a shark, and part of a smaller mosasaur.
	www.cmstudio.com /mosasaur.html (271 words)

	Cooperstown Pierre Shale Site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mosasaurs were marine lizards that inhabited tropical to subtropical oceans, like the Pierre Sea, in coastal areas with water depths of probably less than 100 fathoms (90 meters) during the last part of the Cretaceous Period (Western Interior Seaway Painting).
		Mosasaurs swam by lateral undulations of the posterior part of their elongate bodies and laterally compressed tails.
		Mosasaurs were active carnivores and among the main predators in the Pierre Sea as attested to by their large jaws studded with sharp, conical teeth (Figures 7B and7C).
	www.state.nd.us /ndfossils/Research/Articles/Cooperstown/Cooperstown_Pierre_Shale.html (2240 words)

	Mosasaur
		Mosasaurs are the largest known lizards ever to have lived.
		Mosasaurs are distant relatives of the lizards that you might find today in your backyard.
		Mosasaurs were so completely adapted to life in the sea that their limbs had evolved into paddles.
	web.nhm.ku.edu /Hdocs/Mosasaur.html (145 words)

	News in Science - 'sea serpent' is snake ancestor - 18/08/1999
		In the latest issue of Nature, researchers from the US, Australia and Canada have shown that the skulls of giant lizards called mosasaurs, that lived alongside the dinosaurs, were intermediate between lizard skulls and snake skulls.
		The ability of snakes to devour huge prey is one their most distinguishing features but the transition from the relatively inflexible lizard skull to the highly flexible snake skull had puzzled scientists for some time.
		Mosasaurs were voracious predators with flippers and a paddle-like tail and grew to over 15 metres long.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s44698.htm (194 words)

	Evolving Thoughts: The Mosasaur and the missing link
		Mosasaurs, which ended up 40 feet long (12m) at the end of the Cretaceous when they and dinosaurs and a whole lot of other life went extinct from a bolide impact, evolved fins from their limbs, and many of the primitive mosasaurs had partial limbs/fins.
		Our mosasaur is "primitive" because he (she?) shares the ancestral state rather than the later derived state.
		Had the later mosasaurs re-evolved feet from their fins (and we can be pretty sure they would not be a simple reversion, since so many developmental paths and genes would have been deactivated) then that state would have been "more evolved" or "advanced", and the fin condition "intermediate" and the original feet "primitive".
	evolvethought.blogspot.com /2005/11/mosasaur-and-missing-link.html (774 words)

	Mosasaur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mosasaurs were the largest lizards that ever evolved and attained lengths of almost 60 feet with a skull 6 foot long!
		The mosasaur was a powerful swimmer who spent its entire life in the sea.
		Mosasaurs had long and powerful bodies whose tails and limbs were adapted for swimming.
	www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Cryptozoology/Extinct_animals/mosasaur.htm (345 words)

	Mosasauridae Translation and Pronunciation Guide Introduction
		Mosasaurs have 7 cervical (neck) vertebrae, including the atlas-axis complex (vertebrae 1 and 2) that articulates with the base of the skull.
		Mosasaurs do not have a "sacrum" as such--the ilium has no direct contact with the vertebral column and there is no group of "sacral" vertebrae fused together as in many other reptiles.
		Mosasaurs are members of the Squamata, the group of diapsid reptiles that includes living lizards and snakes.
	www.dinosauria.com /dml/names/mosai.html (1602 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		mosasaur skull with evdience of shark bites 2.
		Sharks are able to regurgitate indigestible portions of their meals, and as Everhart explains, the shark swallowed the mosasaur, bones and all, and partially digested it before spitting it back out again.
		And although the mosasaurs may have been hearty meals for the sharks, it appears they ultimately won the battle of the seas.
	www.exn.ca /dinosaurs/story.asp?id=1999102052&name=archives (603 words)

	Differentiating Mosasaur Teeth from Croc Teeth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The difficulty in identifying these teeth as croc or mosasaur is because as you stated they are generally small in size.
		Larger mosasaur teeth are easier to identify due to the heavy striations and well defined carinae.
		The problem is with smaller mosasaur teeth, which possess striations that are not as heavy (as can be seen on the 3/8" mosasaur tooth in the 9/12/04 trip).
	www.ditchweezil.net /threadView.aspx?id=532 (659 words)

	Waipara Mosasaur - Fossils: Geology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand mosasuar
		Mosasaur lower jaw with associated teeth (above) and outline of dorsal surface of skull (below), as exposed in the field.
		The fossil is one of the most complete mosasaur skulls collected from New Zealand and, for our Cretaceous reptiles, is a “find of the decade.” The skull indicates an animal perhaps 5 m long; it is reminiscent of the previously-named Waipara mosasaur Prognathodon waiparaensis, but may be a new species.
		The new mosasaur was found in April 2004, as part of field work on Cretaceous environments of the Waipara area.
	www.otago.ac.nz /geology/features/paleontology/mosasaur.html (1024 words)

	Missing fossil link 'Dallasaurus' found
		Mosasaurs, every bit as prolific, fascinating and nearly as big as some dinosaurs, are becoming more popular for paleontologists to study.
		Although a small number of primitive mosasaur have been known to retain land-capable limbs, they were thought to be an ancestral group separate from the later fin-bearing forms.
		Mosasaur fossils, in contrast, are rarely found in large groupings, and are only found in areas once covered by seas.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-11/smu-mfl111605.php (1107 words)

	Mosasaur Predation on Upper Cretaceous Nautiloids and Ammonites from the United States Pacific Coast -- KAUFFMAN 19 ...
		Mosasaurs are known to have preyed on ammonites during the Cretaceous.
		The conclusion that mosasaurs preyed on Cretaceous cephalopods
		Were limpets or mosasaurs responsible for the perforations in the ammonite Placenticeras?:: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.
	palaios.geoscienceworld.org /cgi/content/full/19/1/96 (3229 words)

	mosasaur -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The mosasaurs competed with other marine reptiles—the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs—for food, which consisted largely of ammonoids, fish, and cuttlefish.
		Many mosasaurs of the Late Cretaceous were large, exceeding 9 metres (30 feet) in length, but the most common forms were no larger than modern porpoises.
		The structure of the skull was very similar to that of the modern monitor lizards, to which mosasaurs are related.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9053875 (678 words)

	RNW: The Mosasaur - MaastrichtÂ´s Prehistoric Mega-Lizard
		The creature was later named the âMosasaur', literally âlizard of the Meuse or Maas river'.
		Mosasaur has now become a generic name because, since the 1600's, many different types of mosasaur have been found all over the world.
		This mosasaur had big, strong teeth deeply lodged into the jaw-bone - which tells us that there was huge power in the teeth.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/science/mosasaurus000810.html (806 words)

	A Day in the Life of a Mosasaur
		Twenty years old and over 10 meters in length, the adult mosasaur was almost full grown, and was much larger than any of the fish or sharks that lived in the shallow seaway.
		Female mosasaurs tended to band together in pods for the protection of their young, while the males were solitary and very territorial.
		The mosasaur found it increasingly difficult to maintain his stationary position and nearly impossible to sense the approach of possible prey against the increasing background noise caused by the wind and rain.
	www.oceansofkansas.com /mosa-sty.html (1939 words)

	Big Brook Plesiosaur Page
		The scrappy reptilian bone of mosasaurs, sea turtles, "crocodiles", and plesiosaurs are similar and are all found at this locality.
		Similar fossils: Plesiosaur teeth are distinguishable from area mosasaur teeth in that they lack the carinae that the mosasaur teeth have.
		Their vertebrae can resemble crocodile or the mosasaur vertebrae but are lacking the convex and concaved ends.
	njfossils.net /plesiosaur.html (528 words)

	BHI/Fossils & Minerals/Reptiles and Amphibians/Mosasaurs
		The tail of a Mosasaur is nearly half the length of the complete animal.
		Mosasaurs were all equipped with a large mouthful of crocodile-like teeth used for capturing their prey.
		Most Mosasaur skulls show "joints" that allowed for movement of individual skull bones, widening the gape and allowing Mosasaurs to manipulate their prey, perhaps turning items for easier swallowing.
	www.bhigr.com /pages/info/info_mosa.htm (251 words)

	Mosasaur fossils Ron Ruble Enterperises
		Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers, that adapted to living in shallow seas having a long, streamlined body, broad webbed paddles, a strong flattened tail and powerful jaws with many sharp teeth.
		Mosasaurs are distinguished as one of the first fossils to attract public attention, which resulted in a huge custody battle and involved more than one country.
		Platecarpus was a mosasaur that averaged about 14 feet long (the biggest ones are 24 feet (8 m) long).
	www.ruble-enterprises.com /mosasaur.htm (330 words)

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