Haasiasaurus Explained

Haasiasaurus is an extinct genus of early mosasaur, originally named "Haasia" by M. J. Polcyn et al.,^{[1] [2]} in honour of the palaeontologist Georg Haas. (The original name was a junior homonym of Haasia Bollman, 1893, a genus of millipedes.) Haasiasaurus was one of the oldest cenomanian mosasaur measuring 1m (03feet) long.^[3] The genus contains the species Haasiasaurus gittelmani, which was found in the Cenomanian 100 million years ago (Upper Cretaceous) rocks near Ein Yabrud, in the Palestinian West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: †Haasiasaurus Polcyn et al. 2003 . Paleobiology Database . Fossilworks . 17 December 2021 . 13 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211213141836/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=83815 . dead .
2. . 2003 . Haasiasaurus gen. nov., a new generic name for the basal mosasaurid Haasia Polcyn et al., 1999 . . 23 . 2 . 476 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2003)023[0476:HGNANG]2.0.CO;2. 86492780 .
3. Rage. Jean-Claude. Escuillie. Francois. The Cenomanian: stage of hindlimbed snakes. Carnets de Géologie. 2003. CG2003. A01–en. 1–11.
4. Book: Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich & P. Vickers-Rich . 1999 . Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium . Michael J. Polcyn, Eitan Tchernov & Louis L. Jacobs . The Cretaceous biogeography of the eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from 'Ein Yabrud, Israel . 259–290 . National Science Museum Monographs . 15 . Tokyo .