Mosasaur bite marks on a plesiosaur propodial from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Sweden

GFF

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-128

  Einarsson, Elisabeth ^a   Lindgren, Johan ^a   Kear, Benjamin P ^b   Siverson, Mikael ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bite marks; Campanian; Cretaceous; Mosasaur; Plesiosaur; Polycotylid; Propodial; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; LIZARD; MARINE RECORD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SCAVENGING (FEEDING);

KRISTIANSTAD BASIN; SWEDEN;

POLYCOTYLIDAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 77955616927     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2010.496534     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Agassiz, L., 1843: Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, vol. 3. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. 390 pp.
2. Andrews, C.W., 1913: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, vol. 2. British Museum (Natural History), London. 206 pp.
3. Bell, G.L. & Martin, J.E., 1995: Direct evidence of aggressive intraspecific competition in Mosasaurus conodon (Mosasauridae: Squamata). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15, 18A.
4. Benson, K.G., 1999: Reptilian gastrointestinal diseases. Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine 8 (2), 90-97.
5. Bergstrom, J. & Sundquist, B., 1978: Kritberggrunden. In K.-A. Kornfält, J. Bergstrom, L. Carserud, H. Henkel & B. Sundquist: Beskrivning till berggrundskartan och flygmagnetiska kartan Kristianstad SO. Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning Af 121, 55-99.
6. Brown, D.S., 1981: The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series 35, 253-347.
7. Camp, C.L., 1942: California Mosasaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 67 pp.
8. Christensen, W.K., 1975: Upper Cretaceous belemnites from the Kristianstad area in Scania. Fossils and Strata 7, 1-69.
9. Cicimurri, D.J. & Everhart, M.J., 2001: An elasmosaur with stomach contents and gastroliths from the Pierre Shale (late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 104 (3/4), 129-143.
10. Cruickshank, A.R.I. & Fordyce, R.E., 2002: A new marine reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: further evidence for a Late Cretaceous austral radiation of cryptoclidid plesiosaurs. Palaeontology 45, 557-575.
11. Davis, J.W., 1890: On the fossil fish of the Cretaceous formations of Scandinavia. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 4, 363-434.
12. Dollo, L., 1889: Note sur les vertébrés récemment offerts au Musée de Bruxelles par M. Alfred Lemonnier. Bulletin de la Société de belge de Géologie, de Paléontologie et d'Hydrologie 3, 181-182.
13. Dudley, S.F.J., Anderson-Reade, M.D., Thompson, G.S. & McMullen, P.B., 2000: Concurrent scavening off a whale carcass by great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, and tiger sharks, Galeocerdo cuvier. Fishery Bulletin 98 (3), 646-649.
14. Erlström, M. & Gabrielson, J., 1986: The Upper Cretaceous clastic deposits of Ullstorp, Kristianstad Basin, Scania. Geologiska Foreningens i Stockholm Forhandlingar 107, 241-254.
15. Erlström, M. & Gabrielson, J., 1992: Petrology, fossil composition and depositional history of the Ignaberga limestone, Kristianstad Basin, Scania. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning Ca 80, 1-30.
16. Everhart, M.J., 2004: Plesiosaurs as the food of mosasaurs; New data on the stomach contents of a Tylosaurus proriger (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Formation of western Kansas. The Mosasaur 7, 41-46.
17. Everhart, M.J., 2005: Bite marks on an elasmosaur (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) paddle from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) as probable evidence of feeding by the lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli. PalArch 2 (2), 15-24.
18. Everhart, M.J., 2008a: Rare occurrence of a Globidens sp. (Reptilia; Mosasauridae) dentary in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale (Middle Campanian) of Western Kansas. In G.H. Farley & J.R. Choate (eds.): Unlocking the unknown. Papers Honoring Dr. Richard Zakrzewski, Fort Hays Studies special issue 2, 23-29.
19. Everhart, M.J., 2008b: A bitten skull of Tylosaurus kansasensis (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and a review of mosasaur-on-mosasaur pathology in the fossil record. Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 11 (3/4), 251-262.
20. Fergusson, I.K., Compagno, L.J.V. & Marks, M.A., 2000: Predation by white sharks Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) upon chelonians, with new records from the Mediterranean Sea and a first record of the ocean sunfish Mola mola (Osteichthyes: Molidae) as stomach contents. Environmental Biology of Fishes 58, 447-453.
21. Friis, E.M. & Skarby, A., 1981: Structurally preserved angiosperm flowers from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Sweden. Nature 291, 484-486.
22. Gilmore, C.W., 1912: A new mosasauroid reptile from the Cretaceous of Alabama. Proceedings U.S National Museum 40, 484-489.
23. Jagt, J.W.M., Cornelissen, D., Mulder, E.W.A., Schulp, A.S., Severijns, J. & Verding, L., 2008: The youngest in situ record to date of Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian Type Area, The Netherlands. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting, Fort Hays Studies Special Issue 3, 73-80.
24. Jensen, E.S., 2002: Skåne gennom 1.800 millioner år. Varv 1, 3-31.
25. Jeppsson, L., Anehus, R. & Fredholm, D., 1999: The optimal acetate buffered acetic acid technique for extracting phosphatic fossils. Journal of Paleontology 73, 964-972.
26. Kauffman, E.G., 2004: Mosasaur predation on Upper Cretaceous nautiloids and ammonites from the United States Pacific coast. Palaios 19, 96-100.
27. Lidmar-Bergstrom, K., 1982: Pre-Quaternary geomorphological evolution in southern Fennoscandia. Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning C 785, 1-202.
28. Lindgren, J., 2004: Stratigraphical distribution of Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurs in Sweden - evidence of an intercontinental marine extinction event? GFF 126, 221-229.
29. Lindgren, J., 2005: The first record of Hainosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from Sweden and a revision of the Tylosaurinae. Journal of Paleontology 6, 1157-1165.
30. Lindgren, J. & Siverson, M., 2002: Tylosaurus ivoensis: a giant mosasaur from the early Campanian of Sweden. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth Sciences 93, 73-93.
31. Lindgren, J. & Siverson, M., 2003: A possibly global mosasaur extinction event at the lower/upper Campanian boundary. GFF 125, 107.
32. Lindgren, J., Currie, P.J., Siverson, M., Rees, J., Cederstrom, P. & Lindgren, F., 2007: The first neoceratopsian dinosaur remains from Europe. Palaeontology 50, 929-937.
33. Lingham-Soliar, T. & Nolf, D., 1990: The mosasaur Prognathodon (Reptilia: Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 59 (1989), 137-190.
34. Marsh, O.C., 1872: Note on Rhinosaurus. American Journal of Science 4 (20), 147.
35. Martin, J.E. & Bjork, P.R., 1987: Gastric residues associated with a mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Pierre Shale in South Dakota. Dakoterra 3, Papers in Paleontology in Honor of Morton Green, 68-72.
36. Martin, J.E. & Fox, J.E., 2007: Stomach contents of Globidens, a shell-crushing mosasaur (Squamata), from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group, Big Bend area of the Missouri River, central south Dakota. In J.E. Martin & D.C. Parris (eds.): The geology and paleontology of the Late Cretaceous marine deposits of the Dakotas. Geological Society of America special paper 427, 167-176.
37. Massare, J.A., 1987: Tooth morphology and prey preferences of Mesozoic marine reptiles. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7 (2), 121-137.
38. McHenry, C.R., Cook, A.G. & Wroe, S., 2005: Bottom-feeding plesiosaurs. Science 310, 75.
39. Moodie, R.L., 1908: Reptilian epiphyses. American Journal of Anatomy 7 (4), 443-467.
40. Moodie, R.L., 1911: An embryonic plesiosaurian propodial. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 23, 95-101.
41. Murray, P.F., 1987: Plesiosaurs from Albian aged Darwin Formation siltstones near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle 4, 95-102.
42. Persson, P.O., 1959: Reptiles from the Senonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Scania (Southern Sweden). Arkiv för mineralogi och geologi 35, 432-477.
43. Persson, P.O., 1963: Studies on Mesozoic marine reptile faunas with particular regard to the Plesiosauria. Publication from the Institutes of Mineralogy, Paleontology and Quaternary Geology, University of Lund 118, 1-15.
44. Polcyn, M.J., Tchernov, E. & Jacobs, L.L., 1999: The Cretaceous biogeography of the eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from Ein Yabrud, Israel. In Y. Tomida, T.H. Rich & P. Vickers-Rich (eds.): Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium. National Science, Museum Tokyo, Monographs 15, 259-290.
45. Rieppel, O., 1997: Introduction, Part II: Sauropterygia. In J.M. Callaway & E.L. Nicholls (eds.): Ancient Marine Reptiles, 107-119. Academic Press, San Diego.
46. Rees, J., 1999: Late Cretaceous hybodont sharks from the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaontologie Monatshefte 1999/5, 257-270.
47. Russell, D.A., 1975: A new species of Globidens from South Dakota. Fieldiana Geology 33 (13), 235-256.
48. Sato, T. & Tanabe, K., 1998: Cretaceous plesiosaurs ate ammonites. Nature 394, 629-630.
49. Schulp, A.S., 2005: Feeding the mechanical mosasaur: what did Carinodens eat? Neatherlands Journal of Geosciences/Geologie en Mijnbouw 84 (3), 345-358.
50. Shimada, K., 1997: Paleoecological relationships of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Agassiz). Journal of Paleontology 71 (5),926-933.
51. Shimada, K., Tsuihiji, T., Sato, T. & Hasegawa, Y., 2009: A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 Supplement to (3), 180A.
52. Siverson, M., 1992: Biology, dental morphology and taxonomy of Lamniform sharks from the Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, Sweden. Palaeontology 35 (3),519-554.
53. Siverson, M., 1993: Maastrichtian squaloid sharks from southern Sweden. Palaeontology 36, 1-19.
54. Sternberg, C.H., 1922: Explorations of the Permian of Texas and the chalk of Kansas, 1918. Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 30, 119-120.
55. Storrs, G.W., 1999: An examination of the Plesiosauria (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation of central North America. University of Kansas, Paleontological Contributions (New Series) 11,1-15.
56. Surlyk, F. & Christensen, W.K., 1974: Epifaunal zonation on an Upper Cretaceous rocky coast. Geology 2, 529-534.
57. Sørensen, A.M. & Surlyk, F., 2008: A brachiopod boring (Podichnus) in a Late Cretaceous oyster from a mangrove-like environment, Skåne, Sweden. Lethaia 41, 295-298.
58. Varricchio, D.J., 2001: Gut contents from a Cretaceous Tyrannosaurid; Implications for Theropod dinosaur digestive tracts. Journal of Paleontology 75,401-406.
59. Wahl, W.R., 2006: A juvenile plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) assemblage from the Sundance Formation (Jurassic), Natrona County, Wyoming. Paludicola 5 (4), 255-261.
60. Welles, S.P., 1943: Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado. University of California, Publications in Geological Sciences 13, 125-254.
61. Welles, S.P., 1962: A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia, and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs. University of California, Publications in Geological Sciences 44, 1-96.
62. Wiffen, J., Buffrénil, V. de., Ricqlés, A. de. & Mazin, J.M., 1995: Ontogenetic evolution of bone structure in Late Cretaceous Plesiosauria from New Zealand. Geobios 28 (5), 625-640.
63. Williston, S.W., 1898: Mosasaurs. The University Geological Survey of Kansas 4,81-347.
64. Williston, S.W., 1899: Some additional characters of the mosasaurs. The Kansas University Quarterly 8 (1), 39-41.
65. Williston, S.W., 1903: North American plesiosaurs, Part 1. Field Columbian Museum Publication (Geology) 73 (2), 1-77.
66. Williston, S.W., 1908: North American plesiosaur: Trinacromerum. Journal of Geology 16 (8), 715-736.
67. Williston, S.W., 1914: Water reptiles of the past and present. University Press, Chicago. 251 pp.
68. Wiman, C., 1920: Some reptiles from the Niobrara Group in Kansas. Bulletin of the Geological Institute of Uppsala 18, 9-18.
69. Yakovlev, N., 1901: Restes d'un mosasaurien trouvé dans le Crétacé Supérieur du sud de la Russie. U.S.S.R. Geologicheskii Komitet; Izvestiia 20, 507-520.