FHSM VP-13283
Mosasauridae (Gervais, 1852)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
Phylum
ChordataSpecies
Class
ReptiliaAuthor
GervaisOrder
SquamataYear
1852Family
MosasauridaeCollected by
Everhart, M.J.;Everhart, P.A.Date Collected
1995-01-15Identified By
Shimada, K.Date Identified
1995-04-07Type
Number of Pieces
6Description
; Vertebra, with bite marks and 2 teeth embeddedLocality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
GoveRemarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality informationGroup
ColoradoFormation
NiobraraMember
Smoky HillZone
Bed
Local Fauna
Chronostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Earliest Period
CretaceousLatest Period
CretaceousLowest Zone
Highest Zone
Publications (3 of 8)
Everhart, M.J.,. 1999. Evidence of feeding on mosasaurs by the late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli. Jour. Vert. Paleon. 17 (Supplement to 3): 43A-44A.
Everhart, M.J., Ewell, K.. 2006. Shark-bitten dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) vertebrae from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Coniacian) of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science , 109:27-35
Everhart, M.J., Hamm, S.A.. 2005. A new nodosaur specimen (Dinosauria: Nodosauridae) from the Smoky Hill Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science , 108:15-21
Shimada, K., 1997. Paleoecological relationships of the late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Agassiz). Journal of Paleontology, 71:926-933
Shimada, K., 2006. Annotated checklist of fossil fishes from the Smoky Hill Chalk of the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) in Kansas. , 35:193-213
Everhart, M.J., 2003. First records of plesiosaur remains in the lower Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Upper Coniacian) of the Niobrara Formation in western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 106:139-148
Everhart, M.J., 2004. Late Cretaceous interaction between predators and prey. Evidence of feeding by two species of shark on a mosasaur. www.PalArch.nl., vertebrate paleontology, 1:2017-01-05
Everhart, M.J., 2005. Bite marks on an elasmosaur paddle from the Niobrara Chalk as probable evidence of feeding by the lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli. www.PalArch.nl., vertebrate paleontology, 2:14-24