Biology:Mosasauroidea
Mosasauroidea is a superfamily of extinct marine lizards that existed during the Late Cretaceous. Basal members of this group consist of small semiaquatic forms with terrestrial limbs ("plesiopedal"), while laters members include larger fully aquatic paddle-limbed ("hydropedal") forms commonly known as mosasaurs.[1] These were traditionally grouped within their own separate families, the Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae respectively. However, phylogenetic studies have since found plesiopedal mosasauroids to be a non-monophyletic group, with some taxa nestled within the mosasaurids.[2][3] Daniel Madzia and Andrea Cau in 2017 defined Mosasauroidea as "the most inclusive clade containing Mosasaurus hoffmannii and Aigialosaurus dalmaticus, but not Dolichosaurus longicollis, Adriosaurus suessi, or Pontosaurus lesinensis".[4]
References
- ↑ Augusta, B.G.; Zaher, H.; Polcyn, M.J.; Fiorillo, A.R.; Jacobs, L.L. (2022). "A Review of Non-Mosasaurid (Dolichosaur and Aigialosaur) Mosasaurians and Their Relationships to Snakes". The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes. Cambridge University Press. pp. 157-179. doi:10.1017/9781108938891. ISBN 978-1-108-93889-1.
- ↑ Caldwell, M.W.; Palci, A. (2007). "A new basal mosasauroid from the Cenomanian (U. Cretaceous) of Slovenia with a review of mosasauroid phylogeny and evolution". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (4): 863-880. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[863:ANBMFT2.0.CO;2].
- ↑ Caldwell, M.W. (2012). "A challenge to categories: "What, if anything, is a mosasaur?"". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183 (1): 17–34. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.1.7.
- ↑ Madzia, Daniel; Cau, Andrea (2017-09-15). "Inferring 'weak spots' in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature" (in en). PeerJ 5. doi:10.7717/peerj.3782. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 28929018.
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