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When sharks and crocodiles ate dinosaurs

  • 24-02-2018 8:37pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭


    Paper describes a femur from a large (Gallimimus size) ornithomimosaur previously unidentified from eastern North America with shark and crocodile bite marks. 
    https://peerj.com/preprints/26565/
    This is from the latest Cretaceous, so the crocodile bite marks could not come from known dinosaur-eater Deinosuchus. However, the paper does mention two crocodile species from that time and region (Borealosuchus and Thoracosaurus), in the same size range as today's largest crocodiles. A specimen of Thoracosaurus apparently reached 7 or 8 meters long.
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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    something is stopping me from seeing photo links


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    I've noticed some pictures I post don´t show up afterwards... dunno what's going on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    I've noticed some pictures I post don´t show up afterwards... dunno what's going on.

    that is why I post up youtube videos instead these days.


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