RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The seven-year study of fossil remains found in 2014 has allowed researchers to identify the third type of mosasaur that inhabited Chile 66 million years ago, the mosasaurine, which joins the already known halisaurines and tylosaurines.
The fossil, corresponding to a vertebra, was discovered during a campaign in Quiriquina Island, in the Bíobío region (center-south), informed a press release by the University of Chile, to whose Paleontological Network belongs the researcher who led the discovery, Rodrigo Otero.
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