Mosasauroidea

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Mosasauroidea Temporal range: Late Cretaceous

Mosasaurus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Pythonomorpha
Superfamily:	†Mosasauroidea Gervais, 1853
Families
Aigialosauridae Mosasauridae

Mosasauroidea is an extinct superfamily of Late Cretaceous lizards that includes the highly marine mosasaurs and their relatives the "aigialosaurs".

Mosasaurini	Eremiasaurus Mosasaurus Plotosaurus

Russellosaurina

Plioplatecarpini	Latoplatecarpus Platecarpus Plesioplatecarpus Plioplatecarpus

Tethysaurinae

Other

Undetermined

Related categories

Extant species

Helodermatidae	Beaded lizard Gila monster

Lanthanotus	Earless monitor lizard

Varanus	Argus monitor Black tree monitor Black-headed monitor Bengal monitor Black-spotted Ridge-tailed Monitor Crocodile monitor Desert Monitor Dumeril's monitor Emerald tree monitor Gray's monitor Kalabeck's monitor Kimberley Rock Monitor Komodo dragon Lace monitor Mangrove monitor Mertens' Water Monitor Nile monitor Peacock monitor Peach Throat Monitor Perentie Rock monitor Pilbara monitor Rennell Island Monitor Rosenberg's Monitor Short-tailed monitor Spiny-tailed monitor Timor tree monitor Turquoise monitor Sand goanna Savannah monitor Water monitor Yellow Monitor

Related categories	Monitor lizards Cretaceous lizards Helodermas Mosasaurs

†Aigialosauridae	Aigialosaurus Carsosaurus Judeasaurus Kaganaias

†Dolichosauridae	Adriosaurus Dolichosaurus Acteosaurus

Helodermatidae	Estesia

†Mosasauridae	Halisaurinae Mosasaurinae Plioplatecarpinae Tylosaurinae

†Necrosauridae	Necrosaurus

Varanidae	Aiolosaurus Cherminotus Megalania Ovoo Saniwa Saniwides Varanus amnhophilis

Others	Telmasaurus Palaeosaniwa

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