Description
Prognathodon anceps
- Prognathodon anceps Mosasaurus Tooth
- Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian stage, (~66 Million Years)
- Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphate beds)
- Oued Zem, Morocco
- The top quality rooted specimen measures 2.75“ long.
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Mosasaurs were the largest lizards that ever evolved. In this case they attained lengths of almost 60 feet with a skull 6 foot long!
The Mosasaur was a powerful swimmer who spent its entire life in the sea.
They had long and powerful bodies whose tails and limbs were adapted for swimming. Like lizards and snakes they probably swam by moving their long body in a snake-like way, also using their finned tail to propel them forwards.
They steered with small, webbed feet.
WHEN DID THEY LIVE?
These reptiles lived during the latter part of the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era (from about 96 million years ago to about 65 million years ago)
They lived at the same time as many of the dinosaurs, like the dinosaurs became extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction
WHAT DID THEY EAT?
Mosasaurs were carnivores eating fish, sea urchins as well as turtles, and shellfish.
