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The type specimen of M. missouriensis was first described in 1834 by Richard Harlan based on a snout fragment found along the river's Big Bend. [22] He coined the specific epithet and initially identified it as a species of Ichthyosaurus [28] but later as an amphibian. [29] The rest of the skull had been discovered earlier by a fur-trapper, and it eventually came under the possession of prince Maximilian of Weid-Neuwied between 1832 and 1834. The fossil was delivered to Georg August Goldfuss in Bonn for research, who published a study in 1845. [30] The same year, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer suspected that the skull and Harlan's snout were part of the same individual. This was confirmed in 2004. [22] ZIETLOW: We think mosasaurs were able to grow to be so big because they had a lot of food available to them. In the Museum collections, Zietlow kneels next to a huge lower jaw of a mosasaur and uses a tape measure to find its length. Text appears: “mosasaur: 50 ft (15 m)” Tamaki Sato (2005). "A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation in Saskatchewan, Canada". Journal of Paleontology. 79 (5): 969–980. doi: 10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079[0969:anpprs]2.0.co;2. S2CID 131128997. The new study shows that even after years of work in the Cretaceous of Morocco, new species are continuing to be discovered. The reason may be that most species are rare.

Steven M. Stanley (1999). Earth System History. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. pp.487–489. ISBN 978-0-7167-2882-5. The authors of the study predict that in a very diverse ecosystem, it may take decades to find all of the rare species. Michael W. Caldwell (2007). "Ontogeny, anatomy and attachment of the dentition in mosasaurs (Mosasauridae: Squamata)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 149 (4): 687–700. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00280.x.Martinus van Marum (1790). Beschrijving der beenderen van den kop van eenen visch, gevonden in den St Pietersberg bij Maastricht, en geplaatst in Teylers Museum (in Dutch). Vol.9. Verhandelingen Teylers Tweede Genootschap. pp.383–389. That several teeth were found with the same shape suggests their strange shape was not the result of a pathology or a mutation.

Petrus Camper (1786). "Conjectures relative to the petrifactions found in St. Peter's Mountain near Maestricht". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 76 (2): 443–456. doi: 10.1098/rstl.1786.0026. ISSN 2053-9223. The teeth were small, but stout and with wear on the tips, which seemed to rule out soft-bodied prey. The teeth weren't strong enough to crush heavily armored animals like clams or sea urchins, however. Catherine R. C. Strong; Michael W. Caldwell; Takuya Konishi; Alessandro Palci (2020). "A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon 'Platecarpus' ptychodon". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (21): 1769–1804. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2020.1818322. Known fossils of Mosasaurus have typically been recovered from deposits representing nearshore habitats during the Cretaceous period, with some fossils coming from deeper-water deposits. [88] [126] Lingham-Soliar (1995) elaborated on this, finding that Maastrichtian deposits in the Netherlands with M. hoffmannii occurrences represented nearshore waters around 40–50 meters (130–160ft) deep. Changing temperatures and an abundance in marine life were characteristic of these localities. The morphological build of M. hoffmannii, nevertheless, was best adapted for a pelagic surface lifestyle. [50] ZIETLOW: where we can see that the scales are kind of diamond shaped and they have a little keel down the middle,Mark Evans (2010). "The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of reptile palaeontology". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 343 (1): 5–29. Bibcode: 2010GSLSP.343....5E. doi: 10.1144/SP343.2. S2CID 84158087. The real Mosasaurus species were simply not that big, paleontologists told Live Science shortly after "Jurassic World" was released in 2015. The creature in the film is about twice the size of the largest known mosasaur fossil, according to ReBecca Hunt-Foster, a paleontologist at the Bureau of Land Management Canyon Country District, and John Foster, the director of the Museum of Moab.