Dolichosauridae

Dolichosauridae
Temporal range: Barremian - late Campanian,[1][2][3][4] 129–72 Ma
Fossil skeleton of Pontosaurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Toxicofera
Family: †Dolichosauridae
Gervais, 1852
Genera

Dolichosauridae (from Latin, dolichos = "long" and Greek sauros= lizard) is a family of Cretaceous aquatic lizards. They are widely considered to be the earliest and most primitive members of Mosasauria, though some researchers have recovered them as more closely related to snakes.[5]

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  2. ^ a b c Michael W. Caldwell; Tiago R. Simões; Alessandro Palci; Fernando F. Garberoglio; Robert R. Reisz; Michael S. Y. Lee; Randall L. Nydam (2021). "Tetrapodophis amplectus is not a snake: re-assessment of the osteology, phylogeny and functional morphology of an Early Cretaceous dolichosaurid lizard". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Latest Articles. 19 (13): 893–952. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1983044. S2CID 244414151.
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  5. ^ Augusta, Bruno G.; Zaher, Hussam; Polcyn, Michael J.; Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Jacobs, Louis L. (2022-08-11), Gower, David J.; Zaher, Hussam (eds.), "A Review of Non-Mosasaurid (Dolichosaur and Aigialosaur) Mosasaurians and Their Relationships to Snakes", The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes (1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 157–179, doi:10.1017/9781108938891.011, ISBN 978-1-108-93889-1, retrieved 2024-01-30