A New Hypothesis of the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Tylosaurinae (Squamata: Mosasauroidea)

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Paulina Jiménez-Huidobro, Michael W. Caldwell
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: Tylosaurinae; Tylosaurus; Taniwhasaurus; phylogenetic relationship; Late Cretaceous; Science; Q; Caldwell; Hector; Antarc*; antarcticus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00047; https://doaj.org/article/9d110af7b0594884b4ce3e5d6307b596

Tylosaurinae (Williston, 1897), is reconstructed in most analyses as the sister group of the Plioplatecarpinae (Dollo, 1884). The most distinctive characteristic of the group is an elongated edentulous rostrum on the premaxilla. Members of the tylosaurine subfamily are divided into two genera: Tylos...