Mauriciosaurus was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Mauriciosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in North America.
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Mauriciosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- E. Frey, E. W. A. Mulder, and W. Stinnesbeck, H. E. Rivera-Sylva, J. M. Padilla-Gutiérrez, A. H. González-González. 2017. A new polycotylid plesiosaur with extensive soft tissue preservation from the early Late Cretaceous of northeast Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 69(1):87-134
