‘Caught in the act’; evidence for asteroid predation on plesiosaur (elasmosaurid) carcasses from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan
We report the unusual occurrence of an asteroid preserved within the metapodials bones (flipper) of a plesiosaur from the Upper Yezo Group of Hobetsu, Hokkaido. Not only is this specimen one of the few asteroids reported from the Late Cretaceous, Japan, but it appears to be very well preserved with...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utp.edu.my/6176/1/Hunter%26SakuraiECE-Gottingen.pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/6176/ |
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