Mammalian tooth marks on the bones of dinosaurs and other Late Cretaceous vertebrates

Palaeontology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 703-709

  Longrich, Nicholas R ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belly River Group; Dinosaur Park Formation; Late Cretaceous; Multituberculata; Oldman Formation; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

BONE; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; DENTITION; DINOSAUR; PALEONTOLOGY; TOOTH; TRACE FOSSIL;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MULTITUBERCULATA; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955151034     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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