Selmasaurus was a mosasaur, a type of marine reptile related to lizards and snakes. It was not a dinosaur. Selmasaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found in North America.

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Selmasaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
  • E. L. Nicholls. 1988. New material of Toxochelys latiremis Cope, and a revision of the genus Toxochelys (Testudines, Chelonioidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(2):181-187
  • K. R. Wright and S. W. Shannon. 1988. Selmasaurus russelli, a new plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(1):102-107