Healed bite marks on a cretaceous ichthyosaur

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 859-863

  Zammit, Maria ^a   Kear, Benjamin P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATOR; REPTILE;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; PLATYPTERYGIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855330273     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0117     Document Type: Article

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