Tylosaurus rex Variante:Pintado a mano Snout-tail base length 62 mm

Snout-tail base length 62 mm

This specimen has been fundamental for understanding the group's ontogenetic development

Dimetrodon limbatus

a Smilodon populator

Tylosaurus rex Variante:Pintado a mano Snout-tail base length 62 mmTylosaurus rex was a gigantic mosasaurid from the Late Cretaceous, formally described in 2026 from fossils recovered in Texas, within deposits associated with the ancient Western Interior Seaway of North America. This species belongs to the genus Tylosaurus, a group of large marine squamates distantly related to monitor lizards and snakes, not dinosaurs that dominated many oceanic ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous. The specific name rex, meaning