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Edmontosaurus Lambe 1917

Description

An additional specimen, a proximal pedal phalanx of Edmontosaurus sp.

(University of California, Museum of Paleontology; cast 140601) from the same general vicinity as the Triceratops pelvis, shows T. rexlike bite marks (i.e. broad and deep elongate bite furrows). The element has five bite mark furrows distributed axially on its dorsal and lateral surfaces (Fig. 4). The largest furrow is 5.4 cm long and 0.9 cm deep. The bite furrows are deeper toward the proximal end of the element, suggesting that the tyrannosaur was pulling away from the carcass as it produced the bite marks. No serration marks are evident on the specimen.

Notes

Published as part of Erickson, Gregory M. & Kenneth H. Olson, 1996, Bite marks attributable to Tyrannosaurus rex: preliminary description and implications, pp. 175-178 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (1) on page 175, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.1996.10011297, http://zenodo.org/record/3732430

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UCMP
Family
Hadrosauridae
Genus
Edmontosaurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
UCMP 140601
Order
Dinosauria
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lambe
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Edmontosaurus Lambe, 1917 sec. Erickson & Olson, 1996