Goronyosaurus was a mosasaur, a type of marine reptile related to lizards and snakes. It was not a dinosaur. Goronyosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found in Africa.
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Goronyosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. Azzaroli, C. De Giuli, and G. Ficcarelli, D. Torre. 1972. An aberrant mosasaur from the Upper Cretaceous of north-western Nigeria. Rendiconti della classe di fisiche, mathematiche e naturali 52:398-402
- J. J., Jr. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
- R. T. J. Moody and P. J. C. Suttcliffe. 1991. The Cretaceous deposits of the Iullemmeden Basin of Niger, central West Africa. Cretaceous Research 12:137-157
