Goronyosaurus
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/68803
- Note
- "Goronyosaurus is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. Fossils of Goronyosaurus are exclusively known from the Dukamaje Formation of Niger and Nigeria and are Maastrichtian in age. Its fossils were first described in the 1930s as Mosasaurus nigeriensis, but subsequent remains revealed a highly unique set of adaptations that prompted the species to be reclassified as the only species of the new genus Goronyosaurus in 1972. These unique adaptations have made Goronyosaurus notoriously difficult to classify within the Mosasauridae and it is often left out of phylogenetic analyses." - (en.wikipedia.org 02.03.2020)
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