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The Mosasaurus hoffmannii skull found in Maastricht between 1770 and 1774 The first publicized discovery of a partial fossil mosasaur skull in 1764 by quarry workers in a subterranean gallery of a limestone quarry in Mount Saint Peter , near the Dutch city of Maastricht , preceded any major dinosaur fossil discoveries, but remained little known.
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 1780 was famously nicknamed the "great animal of Maastricht".
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But 2021's discovery of a 10m-long predator fossil - the largest of its type ever discovered in the UK - and the unearthing of a fragment of ichthyosaur skull on the route of the new Melton bypass ...
Basilosaurus (meaning "king lizard") is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene, approximately 41.3 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). ). First described in 1834, it was the first archaeocete and prehistoric whale known to scienc
The skull of a pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, was discovered on a beach in Dorset, England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
The skull was restored at 55 centimeters (22 in) in length. There were four teeth in the premaxilla, 14–16 in the maxilla, and 17–19 in the dentary. Mamenchisaurus have forked chevrons (or sled chevrons) starting around the middle of the tail, similar to those seen in diplodocids; these chevrons curve strongly backwards and add a forward ...
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