Apatite from dinosaur bone remains (the Gobi Desert, south Mongolia)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 129-144

  Samoilov, V S ^a   Smirnova, E V ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VINOGRADOV INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bone apatite geochemistry; Carbonate fluor apatite; Dinosaur bone remains

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034419142     PISSN: 00283649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. AYLIFFE, L. K., LISTER, A. M. & CHIVAS, A. R. (1992): The preservation of glacial-interglacial climatic signatures in the oxygen isotopes from elephant skeletal phosphate. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 99: 179-191.
2. BARRICK, R. E. & SHOWERS, W. J. (1994): Thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex.: Evidence from oxygen isotopes. - Science 265: 222-224.
3. BARSBOLD, R. (1972): Late Cretaceous biostratigraphy and limitic mollusks in Gobian part of Mongolian People Republic. - Nauka, Moscow, 146 p. (in Russian).
4. BOCHERENS, H., FIZET, M. & MARIOTTI, A. (1994): Diet, physiology and ecology of fossil mammals as inferred by stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes biochemistry: implications for Pleistocene bears. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 107: 213-225.
5. BORNEMAN-STARYNKEVICH, I. D & BELOV, I. V. (1940): Isomorphic replacements in carbonate-apatite. - Doklady AN SSSR 26: 804-807. (in Russian).
6. BRYANT, J. D., Luz, B. & FROELICH, P. N. (1994): Oxygen isotopic composition of fossil horse tooth phosphate as a record of continental paleoclimate. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 107: 303-316.
7. DEER, W. A., HOWIE, R. A. & ZUSMAN J. (1962): Rock-forming minerals, v. 5. -Longmans, London, 370 p.
8. DEVYATKIN, E. V. (1981): Cenozoic in Inner Asia. - Nauka, Moscow, 192 p. (in Russian).
9. DEVYATKIN, E. V. & SHUVALOV, V. F. (1990): Continental Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Mongolia (stratigraphy, geochronology, paleogeography). - In: ZAITZEV, N. S. & KOVALENKO, V. I. (eds.): Evolution of geological processes and metallogenesis of Mongolia, pp. 165-176. (in Russian).
10. DOWNING, K. F. & PARK, L. E. (1998): Geochemistry and early diagenesis of mammal-bearing concretions from the Sucker Creek Formation (Miocene) of southeastern Oregon. - Palaios 13: 14-27.
11. GRADZINSKI, R., KIELAN-JAWOROWSKA, Z. & MARYANSKA, T. (1977): Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, including remarks on previous subdivisions. - Acta Geologica Polonica 27: 281-318.
12. GRANDJEAN, P. H., CAPETTA, H. & ALBAREDE, F. (1988): The REE and Nd of 40-70 Ma old fish debris from the West-African platform. - Geophys. Res. Lett. 15: 389-394.
13. 144Nd ratios in fish remains - Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 84: 181-186.
14. GRANDJEAN, P., FEIST, R. & ALBAREDE, F. (1993): Significance of rare element in old biogenic apatites. - Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57: 2507-2514.
15. HUBERT, J. F., PANISH, P. T., CHURE, D. J. & PROSTAK, K. S. (1996): Chemistry, microstructure, petrology, and diagenetic model of Jurassic dinosaur bones, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. - J. Sediment. Res. 66: 531-547.
16. KENT, G. C. (1992): Comparative anatomy of the vertebrates. - Mosby Year Book, 681 p.
17. KIELAN-JAWOROWSKA, Z. (1969): Hunting for Dinosaurs. - MITPress, Cambridge (Mass.), 118 p.
18. KOLODNY, Y., LUZ, B., SANDER, M. & CLEMENS, W. A. (1996): Dinosaur bone: fossil or pseudomorphs? The pitfalls of physiology reconstruction from apatitic fossils. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 126: 161-171.
19. LEE-THORP, J. A. & VAN DER MERWE, N. J. (1991): Aspects of the chemistry of modern and fossil biological apatite. - J. Archeol. Sci. 18: 343-354.
20. LEHMAN, T. M. (1987): Maastrichtian paleoenvironments and dinosaur biogeography in the Western Interior of Northern America. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 60: 189-201.
21. LONGINELLI, A. (1984): Oxygen isotopes in mammal bone phosphate: A new tool for paleohydrological and paleoclimatological research? - Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 48: 385-390.
22. LUCAS, J. & PREVOT, L. E. (1991): Phosphates and fossil preservation. - In: ALLISON, P. A. & BRIGGS, D. E. G. (eds.): Taphonomy. Realizing the Data Locked in the Fossil Record, pp. 289-409.
23. Luz, B., KOLODNY, Y. & HOROWITZ, M. (1984): Fractionation of oxygen isotopes between mammalian bone phosphate and environmental drinking water. - Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 48: 1689-1693.
24. MARTILL, D. M. (1991): Bones as stones: The contribution of vertebrate remains to the lithologic record. - In: DONOVAN, S. K. (ed.): The processes of fossilization, pp. 270-292.
25. MCCONNELL, D. (1960): Crystal chemistry of dahllite. - Amer. Miner. 49: 209-216.
26. NEWESLEY, H. (1989): Fossil bone apatite. - Appl. Geochem. 4: 233-245.
27. PERSON, A., BOCHERENS, H., MARIOTTI, A. & RENARD, M. (1996): Diagenetic evolution and experimental heating of bone phosphate. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 126: 135-149.
28. PIPER, D. Z. (1991): Geochemistry of a Tertiary sedimentary phosphate deposit: Baja California Sur, Mexico. - Chem. Geol. 92: 283-316.
29. PREVOT, L. & LUCAS, J. (1989): Phosphate. - In: BRIGGS, D. E. G. & CROWTHER, P. R. (eds.): Paleobiology: a synthesis, pp. 256-269.
30. ROZHDESTVENSKY, A. K. & TATARINOV, L. P. (1964): Fundamentals of Paleontology: Amphibians, reptiles and birds. - Nauka, Moscow, 722 p. (in Russian).
31. SAMOILOV, V. S. & BENJAMINI, CH. (1996): Geochemical features of dinosaur remains from the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia. - Palaios 11: 519-531.
32. SANCHEZ CHILLON, B., ALBERDI, M. T., LEONE, G., BONADONNA, F. P., STENNI, B. & LONGINELLI, A. (1994): Oxygen isotopic composition of fossil equid tooth and bone phosphate: an archive of difficult interpretation. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 107: 317-328.
33. SHUVALOV, V. F. (1982): Paleogeography and history of Mongolian lake system in Jurassic and Cretaceous. - In: MARTINSON, G. G. (ed.): Mesozoic Lake Basins of Mongolia, pp. 18-80. (in Russian).
34. - (1985): Lake systems of arid and humid areas of Mongolia in the Late Mesozoic. - In: MATRINSON, G. G. (ed.): Palaeolimnology of arid and humid areas, pp. 39-81. (in Russian).
35. SILLEN, A. & LEE-THORP, J. A. (1994): Trace element and isotopic aspects of predator-prey relationships in terrestrial foodwebs. - Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclim. Palaeoecol. 107: 243-255.
36. TAUSON, L. V., SAMOILOV, V. S., BARSBOLD, R. & SHUVALOV, V. F. (1990): Features of trace element composition of dinosaur remains from Mongolia. - Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 311, pp. 200-204. (in Russian).
37. TAUSON, L. V., SAMOILOV, V. S. & SMIRNOVA, E. V. (1991): Rare earth elements in the dinosaur remains from Gobi desert. - Geokhimia 4: 515-526. (in Russian).
38. TRUEMAN, C. N. (1996): Variation of REE patterns in dinosaur bones from North West Montana: Implications for taphonomy and preservation. - Geoscientist 6: 27-30.
39. WILLIAMS, C. T. (1988): Alteration of chemical composition of fossil bone by soil processes and groundwater. - In: GRUPE, G. & HERRMAN, B. (eds.): Trace elements in Environmental History, pp. 27-40.
40. WRIGHT, J., SCHREDER, H. & HOLSER, W. T. (1987): Paleoredox variations in ancient oceans recorded by rare earths in fossil apatite. - Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51: 631-644.