Named By: | Charles Lewis Camp in 1942 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma |
Location: | USA - California - Moreno Formation |
Size: | Holotype skull about 90 centimetres long, estimated total length roughly 6.5 meters long |
Diet: | Carnivore/Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Skull and jaw |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Squamata | Mosasauridae | Mosasaurinae | |
Plesiotylosaurus is a genus of mosasaur from the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous of North America.