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New records of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of central Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

J.W.M. Jagt*
Affiliation:
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, de Bosquetplein 6, NL-6211 KJ Maastricht, the Netherlands
J. Lindgren
Affiliation:
GeoBioSphere Centre, Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
M. Machalski
Affiliation:
Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, ul. Twarda 51/55, PL 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
A. Radwański
Affiliation:
Instytut Geologii Podstawowej, Wydział Geologii UW, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, PL 02-089 Warszawa, Poland
*
* Corresponding author. Email: john.jagt@maastricht.nl
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Two isolated mosasaur teeth, one from the upper Campanian of Piotrawin, the other from the upper Maastrichtian at Nasilów (Wisla River valley, central Poland), recently described as Plioplatecarpinae sp. A and Plioplatecarpinae sp. B, respectively, are reassigned to the tylosaurine genus Hainosaurus Dollo, 1885. The present record thus adds to the list of Hainosaurus species known to date from elsewhere in Europe (Sweden, Belgium and England).

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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2005

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