Camera zooms in on a section of fossil mosasaur skin that looks a bit like snake skin – diamond shaped, but with a ridge in the section of each small diamond. Mike Everhart (March 26, 2009). "Samuel Wilson's Mosasaurus horridus". Oceans of Kansas. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. a b c d Florence Pieters; Peggy G. W. Rompen; John W. M. Jagt; Nathalie Bardet (2012). "A new look at Faujas de Saint-Fond's fantastic story on the provenance and acquisition of the type specimen of Mosasaurus hoffmanni MANTELL, 1829". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 183 (1): 55–65. doi: 10.2113/gssgfbull.183.1.55.

a b c d e Dimitry V. Grigoriev (2014). "Giant Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Penza, Russia" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 318 (2): 148–167. doi: 10.31610/trudyzin/2014.318.2.148. S2CID 53574339.Mosasaurus probably hunted in fairly deep waters, but would not have traveled too far from the shore, according to the NMNH.

A painting showing what a mosasaur might have looked like, swimming in a school of prehistoric fish. According to Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, the movie mosasaur's movement is also inaccurate, based on a dated interpretation of Mosasaurus swimming like eels or snakes. Vikkie Bartholomeus (September 21, 2015). "Datum vondst mosasaurus ontdekt: in oktober 1778". 1Limburg (in Dutch). Archived from the original on March 7, 2020.Occasionally, mosasaur fossils were preserved with their stomach contents intact, which helps paleontologists learn more about their hunting strategies. For example, paleontologists in Canada uncovered a specimen from the species Mosasaurus missouriensis with large fish bones inside it, according to National Geographic. The fish was larger than the mosasaur's head, and the placement of the bones suggested the mosasaur had devoured its prey piece by piece. a b c d Johan Lindgren; Michael J. Polcyn; Bruce A. Young (2011). "Landlubbers to leviathans: evolution of swimming in mosasaurine mosasaurs". Paleobiology. 37 (3): 445–469. Bibcode: 2011Pbio...37..445L. doi: 10.1666/09023.1. JSTOR 23014733. S2CID 85165085.

David J. Cicimurri; Gorden L. Bell, Jr.; Philip W. Stoffer (1999). "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formations (Late Campanian-Late Maastrichtian) of Badlands National Park, South Dakota" (PDF). National Park Service Paleontological Research. 4: 1–7. Two of the 15 surveyed fossils were reported from the Niobrara Formation, [96] a deposit that Mosasaurus was previously thought but is no longer recognized to be present in. [7] [38] Main article: Research history of Mosasaurus §History of taxonomy Fossil skull of the proposed new species 'M. glycys '

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In 1995, Lingham-Soliar studied the head musculature of M. hoffmannii. Because soft tissue like muscles do not easily fossilize, reconstruction of the musculature was largely based on the structure of the skull, muscle scarring on the skull, and the musculature in extant monitor lizards. [50]

John W. Hoganson; Brett Woodward (2004). "Skeleton of the Rare Giant Sea Turtle, Archelon, Recovered from the Cretaceous DeGrey Member of the Pierre Shale near Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota" (PDF). North Dakota Geological Society Newsletter. 32 (1): 1–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 3, 2020.A model mosasaur skull sits next to a plastic grey replica of what a mosasaur would have looked like alive. Its mouth is wide open showing many teeth.