Mosasaurus
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mosasaurus-203-8766207
title:
Mosasaurus
text:
Mosasaurus is the type genus of the mosasaurs, an extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles. It lived from about 82 to 66 million years ago during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous. The genus was one of the first Mesozoic marine reptiles known to science—the first fossils of Mosasaurus were found as skulls in a chalk quarry near the Dutch city of Maastricht in the late 18th century, and were initially thought to be crocodiles or whales. One skull discovered around 17
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of marine squamate reptile from the Late Cretaceous
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaurus
date created:
2005-06-15T15:11:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:32:39Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Mosasaurus_hoffmannii_-_skeleton.jpg","width":1914,"height":1190}
fields total:
13
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16