Open AccessMosasaurs, Limpets or Diagenesis: How Placenticeras Shells Got Punctured
Author(s) -
Seilacher Adolf
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
fossil record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1860-1014
pISSN - 1435-1943
DOI - 10.1002/mmng.19980010107
Subject(s) - pillar , diagenesis , geology , cretaceous , blank , paleontology , engineering , materials science , composite material , mechanical engineering
Claimed mosasaur bites in Upper Cretaceous Placenticeras shells from the Western United States are reinterpreted as limpetmade pits that became punctured by compactional pressure and beveled during diagenesis.
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