![]() ![]() It's hard to figure out the exact size of the mosasaur in the movie, but The Tylosaurus mosasaur shown on the Jurassic Park movie was the largest mosasaur to exist. Jurassic World vs Real Life: Half the Size Mosasaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous during the end Cretaceous mass extinction event. They are reptiles and are closely related to snakes and monitor lizards. Subfamilies: Halisaurine, Mosasaurinae, Plioplatecarpinae, Tylosaurinae 'Mosa' stands for the Meuse river in Holland - the location where mosasaurs were first described.Ĭlass: Reptilia - Order: Squamata - Superfamily: Mosasauroidea - Family: Mosasauridae Mosasaur (pronunciation: "moh-suh-sawr") - it means "Lizard of the Meuse River" ![]() Clidastes would have looked very similar to a snake in life. Complete skeleton of a 15 foot Mosasaur: Clidastes propython.
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