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When sharks and crocodiles ate dinosaurs
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24-02-2018 9:37pm#1Paper describes a femur from a large (Gallimimus size) ornithomimosaur previously unidentified from eastern North America with shark and crocodile bite marks.
https://peerj.com/preprints/26565/
This is from the latest Cretaceous, so the crocodile bite marks could not come from known dinosaur-eater Deinosuchus. However, the paper does mention two crocodile species from that time and region (Borealosuchus and Thoracosaurus), in the same size range as today's largest crocodiles. A specimen of Thoracosaurus apparently reached 7 or 8 meters long.
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