Mosasaurs belong to the marine reptile family rather than the dinosaur family and lived during the Late Cretaceous. The first fossil remains belonging to the genus Mosasaurus (meaning lizards of the Meuse) were discovered in 1764 in a quarry in Maastricht, the Netherlands, near the Meuse river, from…
Mosasaurs belong to the marine reptile family rather than the dinosaur family and lived during the Late Cretaceous. The first fossil remains belonging to the genus Mosasaurus (meaning lizards of the Meuse) were discovered in 1764 in a quarry in Maastricht, the Netherlands, near the Meuse river, from which it derives its name.
