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TETHYSAURUS
(teh-fis-sore-us)
meaning: "Tethys lizard"
Tethysaurus
Named By: Nathalie Bardet, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola & NourinEddine Jalil in 2003
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 93-89 Ma
Location: Morocco, Errachidia Province
Size: 3 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Skull and almost complete post cranial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Squamata | Mosasauridae | Russellosaurinae |
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Tethysaurus is an extinct genus of tethysaurine mosasauroid from the Early Turonian (Late Cretaceous) period. The only species is Tethysaurus nopscai.

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