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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Mosasauria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.
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Later I learned that mesosaurus not mosasaurus was critical to the theory of continental drift long before A.
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