First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Romano, Marco, Manni, Riccardo, VENDITTI, ENRICO, Nicosia, Umberto, Cipriani, Angelo
• Other Authors: Venditti, Enrico
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: russellosaurina; mosasaur; tylosaurinae; tethy; Upper Cretaceou; turonian; Apennine carbonate platform; Arctic; Torre; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1282480; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.001

During the Late Cretaceous mosasaurs experienced a very rapid diversification, and inhabited almost the whole globe, especially in ancient coastal marine environments and subtropical epicontinental seas. Occurrences of mosasaurs as both complete and fragmentary material are known from all continents...