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Record 1 1993-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Large extinct marine reptiles of the Upper Cretaceous period, having two pairs of clawless five-toed limbs, a lizard-like head and a long body with over a hundred vertebrae.

OBS

From the aigialosaurs, apparently, came the mosasaurs (...) Upper Cretaceous marine lizards, worldwide in distribution but especially common in the chalk rocks of Kansas (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Au Crétasique, les ichthyosaures et les plésiosaures sont remplacés par des reptiles marins d'un troisième type, les mosasaures (...). (...) les mosasaures atteignent communément 10 à 15 mètres et ont tout à fait l'apparence d'immenses lézards aquatiques. (...) Leurs mâchoires, en particulier, possèdent de multiples articulations qui permettaient à la bouche de s'ouvrir démesurément.

Spanish

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