"It's a Mosasaur-Eat-Mosasaur World"
"It's a Mosasaur-Eat-Mosasaur World"
In the sea's complex food web, this scene was probably not unusual: a large mosasuar, Tylosaurus, eating a smaller mosasaur, Clidastes.
Tylosaurus propriger
(TIE low SOAR us)
Description: Marine Lizard
Specimen Location: Pierre shale of Northwestern Kansas
Name Means: "knob lizard' for its rounded nose
This Tylosaurus skeleton is one of the largest ever found, measuring about 45 feet long. Like other mosasaurs, Tylosaurus could flex its lower jaw, allowing it to swallow large prey in one piece, much as snakes do today. Here Tylosaurus is shown attacking a smallar mosasaur, Clidastes.
University of Kansas Museum of Natural History
Discoverer: C.D. Bonker
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