Angolasaurus
Angolasaurus ("Angola lizard") is an extinct genus of mosasaur. Definite remains from this genus have been recovered from the Turonian and Coniacian of Angola, and possibly the Coniacian of the United States, the Turonian of Brazil, and the Maastrichtian of Niger. While at one point considered a species of Platecarpus, recent phylogenetic analyses have placed it between the (then) plioplatecarpines Ectenosaurus and Selmasaurus, maintaining a basal position within the plioplatecarpinae.
| Angolasaurus | |
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| Illustration of the skull of Angolasaurus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Clade: | †Russellosaurina |
| Subfamily: | †Plioplatecarpinae |
| Genus: | †Angolasaurus Telles-Antunes, 1964 |
| Species: | †A. bocagei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Angolasaurus bocagei Telles-Antunes, 1964 | |
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Its wide geographic range make it the one of the only Turonian mosasaurs with a transatlantic range.
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