Sharks eating mosasaurs, dead or alive?
| Autor: | B. M. Rothschild, Anne S. Schulp, L.D. Martin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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010506 paleontology
Predation Shark bite chemical and pharmacologic phenomena 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Mosasaurs SDG 14 - Life Below Water 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Fossil Record biology Ecology Tylosaurus Platecarpus Geology Mosasaur biology.organism_classification Prognathodon Sharks Scavenging human activities |
| Zdroj: | Rothschild, B M, Martin, L D & Schulp, A S 2005, ' Sharks eating mosasaurs, dead or alive? ', Netherlands Journal of Geosciences = Geologie en Mijnbouw, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 335-340 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016774600021119 |
| ISSN: | 1573-9708 0016-7746 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0016774600021119 |
| Popis: | Shark bite marks on mosasaur bones abound in the fossil record. Here we review examples from Kansas (USA) and the Maastrichtian type area (SE Netherlands, NE Belgium), and discuss whether they represent scavenging and/or predation. Some bite marks are most likely the result of scavenging. On the other hand, evidence of healing and the presence of a shark tooth in an infected abscess confirm that sharks also actively hunted living mosasaurs. |
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