Johan Lindgren
Senior lecturer
Mosasaur bite marks on a plesiosaur propodial from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Sweden
Author
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.
Department/s
- Lithosphere and Biosphere Science
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Pages
123-128
Publication/Series
GFF
Volume
132
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Geology
Keywords
- propodial
- plesiosaur
- polycotylid
- mosasaur
- Campanian
- bite marks
- Cretaceous
- Sweden
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2000-0863