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| Title |
The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0051781 |
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| Authors |
László Makádi, Michael W. Caldwell, Attila Ősi |
| Abstract |
Mosasauroids are conventionally conceived of as gigantic, obligatorily aquatic marine lizards (1000s of specimens from marine deposited rocks) with a cosmopolitan distribution in the Late Cretaceous (90-65 million years ago [mya]) oceans and seas of the world. Here we report on the fossilized remains of numerous individuals (small juveniles to large adults) of a new taxon, Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus gen. et sp. nov. from the Csehbánya Formation, Hungary (Santonian, Upper Cretaceous, 85.3-83.5 mya) that represent the first known mosasauroid that lived in freshwater environments. Previous to this find, only one specimen of a marine mosasauroid, cf. Plioplatecarpus sp., is known from non-marine rocks in Western Canada. Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus gen. et sp. nov. uniquely possesses a plesiomorphic pelvic anatomy, a non-mosasauroid but pontosaur-like tail osteology, possibly limbs like a terrestrial lizard, and a flattened, crocodile-like skull. Cladistic analysis reconstructs P. inexpectatus in a new clade of mosasauroids: (Pannoniasaurus (Tethysaurus (Yaguarasaurus, Russellosaurus))). P. inexpectatus is part of a mixed terrestrial and freshwater faunal assemblage that includes fishes, amphibians turtles, terrestrial lizards, crocodiles, pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Saint Martin (French part) | 1 | 20% |
| Thailand | 1 | 20% |
| Singapore | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 62 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 21% |
| Researcher | 11 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 27 | 40% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 33% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 3% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 11 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 September 2023.
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#545,189
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#7,569
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#3,990
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#148
of 4,878 outputs
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