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My Jurassic Park - Injured, Predation or Diseased Dinosaur Bones
Troodon posted a topic in Member Collections
Thought our members might be interested in seeing the few bones in my collection that have some sort of paleopathological features on it. Most of the time when someone is showing us a bone we are looking at some perdation due to bites and wonder if its real. Hopfully that is not the case here. Let me begin by suggesting a good book on the subject Mesozic Vertebrate Life by Tanke, Carpenter and Skrepnick. It covers many areas but several chapters on this subject. What I would like to do is to show you my specimens but ask anyone to post Dinosaur specimens that they may have in their collection that have some features on it. Always interested in seeing other specimens and not has much technical papers. Most of what I'm describing is my guess or no guess, so other opinions are always welcomed Allosaurus sp. To me this looks like bad case of arthritis around the bone. The bone should be smooth. Wonder if they took asprin Struthiomimus sp. I'm not sure what to say on this Tibia. There is a 5 inch wide bulge in the middle of the bone some type of growth or infection? Had to be painful. Second photo is comparison with a normal bone. Theropod indet. A carpal of a theropod with some lesion or scar around the bone. May be a healing scar due to an injury. A toe bone with what looks a theropod bite that has displaced some bone. Looks like some healing occured so it was alive, ouch! Anzu wyliei A toe bone with what looks like a postmortem bite mark. Its shape says Crocodile. Remember the bone is hollow so it would not take much to cause the depression. Edmontosaurus annectens A huge 5" across ungal from Baker Montana. My guess is disease but could be has a result of bite. This is what a normal one should be smooth both sides.- 28 replies
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