Lakumasaurus antarcticus, n. gen. et sp., a new mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica

• Main Authors: Novas, Fernando Emilio, Fernández, Marta Susana, de Gasparini, Zulma B., Lirio, Juan Manuel, Nuñez, Héctor J., Puerta, Pablo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
• Subjects: Mosasaurs; Cretaceous; Antarctica; Weddellian fauna; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ross Island; New Zealand; Argentino; Argentina; Caldwell; Antarc*; antarcticus; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/136746

Mosasaurs were large predatory lizards that typically inhabited warm, epicontinental seas during the last 20 million years of the Mesozoic Era. Evidence of their taxonomic diversity derives mainly from significant finds from Late Cretaceous rocks of North America, Europe, and northern Africa (e.g.,...