Asprosaurus
| Asprosaurus Temporal range: Campanian | |
|---|---|
| Jugal postorbital process of Asprosaurus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea (?) |
| Genus: | †Asprosaurus Park, Evans & Huh, 2015 |
| Species: | †A. bibongriensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Asprosaurus bibongriensis Park, Evans & Huh, 2015 | |
Asprosaurus (lit. 'white lizard') is an extinct genus of anguimorph lizard from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of South Korea. The genus contains a single species, A. bibongriensis, which is the first Mesozoic lizard to have been discovered on the Korean peninsula. Initially classified as a possible monstersaurian, Asprosaurus has been subsequently suggested to be a probable mosasauroid, an extinct group of marine lizards during the Late Cretaceous.