Abstract
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 heating and the presence of a shark tooth in an infected abscess confirm that sharks also actively hunted living mosasaurs.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 335-340 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Netherlands Journal of Geosciences = Geologie en Mijnbouw |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2005 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 14 Life Below Water
Keywords
- Mosasaurs
- Platecarpus
- Predation
- Prognathodon
- Scavenging
- Sharks
- Tylosaurus
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