I want some informations about danish Mosasaurs !

[Brevicollis]

Hello, as I will be going to Møns Klint for the holidays next year, I wanted to gather some informations about mosasaur fossils from there, as one of my main goals in my lifetime would be finding one of these teeth myself either in flint or chalk preservation.

 

What should I look for amongst the rocks, whats a good strategy to do when looking for such teeth, how do they even look like from there ?

 

Any help would be appreciated 

 

@The Amateur Paleontologist, @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon, @Praefectus

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

I actually know little more than what @The Amateur Paleontologist has posted on the forum and generally find there's not much information on Danish mosasaurs out there... From posts like this size comparison graph, and the examples of mosasaur teeth (and other remains) listed below, it seems reasonable to conclude that at least the genera Mosasaurus hoffmannii, Mosasaurus lemonnieri, Plioplatecarpus sp. (cf. marshi) and a prognathodontine mosasaur can be found in the general vicinity:

 

 

 

 

In that sense, the palaeofaunal assemblage superficially shows significant correspondence to the geographically not too distant and better-studied Maastrichtian type area of the Low Countries (see below figure, taken from Holwerda et al., 2023). I'd, therefore, recommend studying finds made there to get a good impression of what you may expect to find at Møns Klint. Alternatively, you could do the same with material found at Rügen, which is supposed to geologically consist of the same deposits - although material from there seems equally rare...

 

Edited November 14 by pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon

[Mahnmut]

Don´t set your lifetime goals to low...

[Brevicollis]

1 hour ago, Mahnmut said:

Don´t set your lifetime goals to low...

Trust me, I wont 

And if I should find one too early, well, there are plenty more fossils out there that want to be discovered !

[Jaybot]

Better early than late.