Ectenosaurus was a mosasaur, a type of marine reptile related to lizards and snakes. It was not a dinosaur. Ectenosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found in North America.
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Ectenosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- C. R. Kiernan and J. A. Ebersole. 2023. Two new plioplatecarpine mosasaurs (Mosasauridae; Plioplatecarpinae) of the genus Ectenosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. PaleoBios 40(13):1-28
- D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252
- G. L. Bell Jr., K. R. Barnes, and M. J. Polcyn. 2013. Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the Big bend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:571-581
