Mosasauroid predation on an ammonite – Pseudaspidoceras – from the Early Turonian of south-eastern Morocco

Gale, A. S.; Kennedy, W. J.; Martill, D.

doi:10.1515/agp-2017-0003

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Mosasauroid predation on an ammonite – Pseudaspidoceras – from the Early Turonian of south-eastern Morocco

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Gale A. S. , Kennedy W. J. , Martill D.

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10.1515/agp-2017-0003

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A juvenile specimen of the ammonite Pseudaspidoceras from the Early Turonian of the Goulmima area in the Province of Er-Rachida in south-eastern Morocco shows clear evidence of predation by a tooth-bearing verte-brate. Most of the body chamber is missing, as a result of post-burial compactional crushing. The adapertural part of the shell on the left flank of the surviving fragment of body chamber bears six circular punctuations; the right flank four. These are interpreted as the product of a single bite by a mosasauroid, probably a Tethysaurus. The taxonomy of the Goulmima Pseudaspidoceras is discuused in an appendix.

Słowa kluczowe

predation ammonite mosasauroidae Cretaceous Turonian Morocco

drapieżnictwo amonit mozazaury kreda turon Maroko

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Faculty of Geology of the University of Warsaw
Komitet Nauk Geologicznych PAN

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Acta Geologica Polonica

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2017

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Vol. 67, no. 1

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31--46

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Bibliogr. 40 poz., rys.

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Gale A. S.

andy.gale@port.ac.uk

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, United Kingdom

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Kennedy W. J.

jim.kennedy@oum.ox.ac.uk

Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, and Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, United Kingdom

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Martill D.

david.martill@port.ac.uk

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, United Kingdom

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (zadania 2017).

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