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Definition of Mosasaurs
1. mosasaur [n] - See also: mosasaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosasaurs
Literary usage of Mosasaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1898)
"dreds of specimens of mosasaurs taken from the Kansas chalk previously and since,
no other specimen has been found, I believe, that can be referred to this ..."
2. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"In addition to the usual articulations for the union of the vertebrae there are
also, in some of the lizards and mosasaurs and all of the snakes, ..."
3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"Half-grown forms do occur, but none that are very young. As I have previously
remarked, it is certain that all mosasaurs did not die of old age. ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"The Skull of mosasaurs " : Journal of Morphology, 1892. Boulenger. — " Osteology
of Heloderma " : Proc. Zool. Soo. London, 1891. ..."
5. Animals of the Past by Frederic Augustus Lucas (1901)
"... those of most mosasaurs. The first of these sea-reptiles to be discovered has
passed into history, and now reposes in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, ..."
6. Modern Achievement edited by Edward Everett Hale (1902)
"Remains of the mosasaurs were first discovered in England in 1833, at Lewes.
In America, mosasaurs were first found in the cretaceous beds at Great Bend, ..."
7. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1902)
"In the mosasaurs it is directed forward from the acetabulum ; in the ...
Abdominal ribs are found in the crocodiles, but there are none in the mosasaurs. ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"After having exhaustively studied the North American mosasaurs, ... The author
finds that the Plesiosaurs, like the mosasaurs, were divided into a number of ..."
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