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New shark-tooth mosasaur species discovered in Morocco Submitted by: Igniyte Thursday, 21 January 2021
A jawbone and teeth found in North Africa belongs to a strange and previously unknown species of mosasaur The new species was a land-based marine reptile that lived 66 million years ago • Xenodens has bladelike teeth arranged in a saw-like cutting blade • It used its teeth to eat large prey and prehaps scavenge carcasses • Palaeontologists were studying marine reptiles in Morocco when they found the fossil