Thalassotitan atrox, a giant predatory mosasaurid (Squamata) from the upper Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco
2022/08/23 by Nicholas R. Longrich, Nour‐Eddine Jalil, Nour-Eddine Jalil +5 · 28 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Apex predator #Biology #Cretaceous #Ecology #Extinction event #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Predation #Squamata #Turtle Biology and Conservation #Vertebrate
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105315
published in Cretaceous Research 140, 105315 (Elsevier BV)
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