Mosasaur Moment

Mosasaur Research Papers

Following are peer-reviewed scientific papers presented by SMU researchers at for the First Mosasaur Conference. It was held at Maastricht, The Netherlands, in March 2004 and published in the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences in November 2005..

Dallasaurus turneri, a new primitive mosasauroid from the Middle Turonian of Texas and comments on thephylogeny of Mosasauridae by G. L. Bell Jr. and M. J. Polcyn.

Russellosaurus coheni n. gen., n. sp., a 92 million-year-old mosasaur from Texas and the definition of the parafamily Russellosaurina by M. J. Polcyn and G. L. Bell Jr.
A new marine varanoid from the Cenomanian of the Middle East by A. Haber and M. J. Polcyn.
Sea-surface temperatures and palaeoenvironments of dolichosaurs and early mosasaurs by L. L. Jacobs, M. J. Polcyn, L. H. Taylor and K. Ferguson.
Cretaceous 13c stratigraphy and the age of dolichosaurs and early mosasaurs by L. L. Jacobs, K. Ferguson, M J. Polcyn and C. Rennison.