Bentiabasaurus

Bentiabasaurus; Temporal range: Maastrichtian, 71.40–71.64 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Main skull block of syntype (MGUAN PA 183D) on temporary display at the Smithsonian Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	†Mosasauria
Family:	†Mosasauridae
Tribe:	†Plotosaurini
Genus:	†Bentiabasaurus; Polcyn, Schulp & Gonçalves, 2023
Type species
	†Bentiabasaurus jacobsi; Polcyn, Schulp & Gonçalves, 2023

Bentiabasaurus was a gracile plotosaurine mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous Mocuio Formation of Angola.^[1] The type and only species of the genus, B. jacobsi, was described in 2023 by Michael Polcyn, Anne Schulp and António Gonçalves.^[2]

^ Strganac, C.; Jacobs, L.L.; Polcyn, M.J.; Mateus, O.; Myers, T.S.; Salminen, J.; May, S.R.; Araújo, R.; Ferguson, K.M.; Gonçalves, A. Olímpio; Morais, M.L.; Schulp, A.S.; da Silva Tavares, T. (2015). "Geological setting and paleoecology of the Upper Cretaceous Bench 19 Marine Vertebrate Bonebed at Bentiaba, Angola". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw. 94 (1): 121–136. doi:10.1017/njg.2014.32. ISSN 0016-7746.
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[1] Strganac, C.; Jacobs, L.L.; Polcyn, M.J.; Mateus, O.; Myers, T.S.; Salminen, J.; May, S.R.; Araújo, R.; Ferguson, K.M.; Gonçalves, A. Olímpio; Morais, M.L.; Schulp, A.S.; da Silva Tavares, T. (2015). "Geological setting and paleoecology of the Upper Cretaceous Bench 19 Marine Vertebrate Bonebed at Bentiaba, Angola". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw. 94 (1): 121–136. doi:10.1017/njg.2014.32. ISSN 0016-7746.

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