
Johan Lindgren
Universitetslektor

Mosasaur bite marks on a plesiosaur propodial from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
Although plesiosaurs and mosasaurs co-existed for about 35 million years at the end of the Cretaceous, the fossil record documenting interactions between these two groups of marine reptiles is meagre. The discovery of deeply incised scars on a limb bone of an immature polycotylid plesiosaur from the latest early Campanian (in the European two-fold division of the Campanian Stage) of the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden, is thus significant because it represents a rare example of predation or scavenging on an immature polycotylid plesiosaur by a large mosasaur.
Avdelning/ar
- Berggrundsgeologi
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
123-128
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
GFF
Volym
132
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Geology
Nyckelord
- propodial
- plesiosaur
- polycotylid
- mosasaur
- Campanian
- bite marks
- Cretaceous
- Sweden
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2000-0863