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SUBMITTER: de Valais S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3253797 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Valais Silvina S Apesteguía Sebastián S Garrido Alberto C AC
PloS one 20120109 1
Ecological relationships among fossil vertebrate groups are interpreted based on evidence of modification features and paleopathologies on fossil bones. Here we describe an ichnological assemblage composed of trace fossils on reptile bones, mainly sphenodontids, crocodyliforms and maniraptoran theropods. They all come from La Buitrera, an early Late Cretaceous locality in the Candeleros Formation of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. This locality is significant because of the abundance of small ...[more]