Once dominants of the sea in the dinosaur age, fossil specimen in the mosasaur taxon family similar to the modern Komodo Dragon.
Study shows that significant portions of the skull and axial postcranial skeleton were identified that matched the prehistoric specimen.These fossilized remains were unearthed in the lower Turonian area in the gray shale badlands of the National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah.
“In March 2012, Richardson found numerous small skull fragments and vertebrae of what proved to be an early mosasaur scattered across a broad shale slope,” UNF said.Dr Albright said that when the Tropic Shale was being deposited nearly 94 million years ago, mosasaurs were still very small, primitive, and in the early evolutionary stages of becoming fully marine adapted. Due to this, their fossils have been extremely rare and difficult to find.
The name reflects both the vanished ancient seaway where the animal harbored and also identifies with the mirages associated with the region’s intense summer heat. Over time mosasaurs evolved into gigantic lizard-like marine predators from just being 3 feet long, study finds. These predators dominated the oceans during the latter part of the dinosaur age
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