Mosasaurids Bare the Teeth: An Extraordinary Ecological Disparity in the Phosphates of Morocco Just Prior to the K/Pg Crisis
Journal: Diversity
Year: 2025

Mosasaurid teeth are abundant in the fossil record and often diagnostic to low taxonomic levels, allowing to document the taxonomic diversity and ecological disparity through time and with fewer biases than in other marine reptiles. The upper Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco, with at least fifteen coeval species representing a wide range of sizes and morphologies, undoubtedly represent the richest outcrop in the world for this clade of iconic Mesozoic squamates and one of the richest known ma