Haasiasaurus
| Haasiasaurus Temporal range: 100 Ma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Mosasauridae |
| Genus: | Haasiasaurus Polcyn et al., 2003 |
| Species: | H. gittelmani |
| Binomial name | |
| Haasiasaurus gittelmani (Polcyn et al., 1999) | |
Haasiasaurus is an extinct genus of early mosasaur, originally named "Haasia" by M. J. Polcyn et al.,[1] in honour of the palaeontologist Georg Haas. (The original name was a junior homonym of Haasia Bollman, 1893, a genus of millipedes.) the haasiasaurus was the largest cenomanian mosasaur at 2.5 meters( 8.2 feet). The genus contains the species Haasiasaurus gittelmani, which was found in Cenomanian 100 million years ago(Upper Cretaceous) rocks near Ein Yabrud, in the Palestinian West Bank, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Jerusalem.[2]
External links
- Haasiasaurus at the Paleobiology Database.
References
- ↑ Michael J. Polcyn, Eitan Tchernov & Louis L. Jacobs (2003). "Haasiasaurus gen. nov., a new generic name for the basal mosasaurid Haasia Polcyn et al., 1999". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (2): 476–476. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)023[0476:HGNANG]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Michael J. Polcyn, Eitan Tchernov & Louis L. Jacobs (1999). Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich & P. Vickers-Rich, ed. The Cretaceous biogeography of the eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from 'Ein Yabrud, Israel. National Science Museum Monographs, no. 15. Tokyo. pp. 259–290.
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