Foshunter Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Was looking through some of my fossils stored in the garage and ran across some 3 inch plus Mosasaur rib fragments. One had a very noticable scavanged shark bite. The shark was no doubt Squalicorax kaupi as it had the only serrated teeth during the Upper Cretaceous, Campanian Period from in the N. Sulphur River exposure. Thought it interesting and wanted to share----Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sseth Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 What a great piece. _____________________________________ Seth www.fossilshack.com www.americanfossil.com www.fishdig.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 As advertised: very interesting, and a great 'bite-mark' example! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilHunter Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I've seen that on several of my pieces from Kansas- it's cool to get such a story with a piece! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 wow great find! thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sward Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 It's fascinating that so much information can be gleaned from so little evidence. Great piece. SWardSoutheast Missouri (formerly Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX) USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 i love fossils that show how the animal met its demise and/or "post processing". i should have a couple neat ones to show soon too. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Very nice find, Tom. It's always interesting to see evidence of interaction between ancient contemporaries. A few years ago, Gorden Bell - a paleontologist with the NPS - was doing some research on that type of find. He had helped me identify a partial Plioplatecarpus I'd found and asked me to inspect the bones for the same tell-tale evidence seen on your specimen. I didn't find any marks as definitive as yours, but I sent him a large sample of the matrix that had been in contact with the bones for him to process in a search for the teeth. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Neat, we always inspect our Miocene bone finds for feeding damage and have a few, but we haven't found it in any cretaceous stuff yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 (edited) The interaction of species has always been an interest, the happenings at death or after death can be very interesting, not always the smoking gun as in this case. My favorite is the Cretaceous turtle plastron showing the front teeth marks of a large Mosasaur----Tom Edited November 1, 2013 by Foshunter Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Awesome examples.I've only got a few pieces where bite marks are evident but I check every piece of bone I find.If they could only talk.Well.......they do a little I guess lol Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonboro37 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 That is awesome! Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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