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Bite mechanics of ancient marine predators yields surprising results
The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North America into North and …
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Apexpredators #AU #Australia #Finiteelementanalysis #Fish #fossilbiomechanics #fossils #lateCretaceous #Marinebiology #marinereptiles #mosasaurs #NewDiscoveries #nichepartitioning #Paleontology #plesiosaurs #prehistoricoceans #research #WesternInteriorSeaway
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Bite mechanics of ancient marine predators yields surprising results
The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North America into North and …
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Apexpredators #AU #Australia #Finiteelementanalysis #Fish #fossilbiomechanics #fossils #lateCretaceous #Marinebiology #marinereptiles #mosasaurs #NewDiscoveries #nichepartitioning #Paleontology #plesiosaurs #prehistoricoceans #research #WesternInteriorSeaway
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#NewSpecies of #Plesiosaur Identified in United States
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/unktaheela-specta-12581.htmlA new genus of small polycotylid #plesiosaurs from the Upper #Cretaceous of the #WesternInteriorSeaway and a clarification of the genus Dolichorhynchops https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123003403
"Although convergent with #pliosaurids, the smaller gape and teeth of most #polycotylids indicate they occupied a different ecological niche."
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#NewSpecies of #Mosasaur Identified in #Utah https://www.sci.news/paleontology/sarabosaurus-dahli-12021.html
A new lower #Turonian #mosasaurid from the #WesternInteriorSeaway and the antiquity of the unique basicranial circulation pattern in Plioplatecarpinae https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667123001490
"#Mosasaurs were a group of large predatory marine #reptiles that inhabited all of the world’s oceans during the Late #Cretaceous epoch, between 90 and 66 million years ago. These creatures went #extinct during the end-Cretaceous #extinction."