Very first Mosasaur found in the Congo
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The Congosaurus caroni was a recently described mosasaur found in the Congolese country of the Central African Republic. Its discoverer, the French-born Dioumedes Caron, said that the fossil was a big step in fossil history, as the Congosaurus was the first fossil lizard from Central Africa.
Caron said that the first paleontological expeditions to the Congo began in 1928. Packard Driller and his team spent fifteen years searching for fossils to no avail. Driller went missing in 1943 and the mission was called off. In 2012, a small ammonite was found in the Central African Republic's C'Nmanta Limestone (once thought to contain no fossils) by Driller's grandson, Caron. Caron knew that he had found the correct place where fossils existed in the Congo. The next year, he had noticed a partial vertebra poking out of a hillside. He and his team investigated further and over the next two years, they excavated the partial skeleton of a mosasaur believed to be a new genus.
At first, the skeleton was informally known as Tylosaurus congolensis until an official description was published on December 29, 2019. A large, life sized replica skeleton was put on display at the Congo Museum of Natural History, which housed much of Caron's finds.Below the mounted skeleton was a replica of the original skeleton as it was found in 2012. Next to the skeleton in the glass container was Caron's original ammonite, now known as the Centralafricanites caroni.
Congosaurus was around 7 meters, or 35 feet, long when fully grown. It was placed in the Tylosaurinae upon discovery. It would have been a filter feeder, eating mainly ammonites or other mosasaurs (teeth of which were found in the C'Nmanta Limestone, Chad Subdivision).
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