Oryctos
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Anne S. Schulp, Geert H.I.M. Walenkamp, Paul A.M. Hofman, Yvonne Stuip & Bruce M. Rothschild, Chronic bone infection in the jaw of Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Squamata). Oryctos 6, 41-52.
A massive infection appears to have destroyed a considerable portion of the quadrate and the posterior part of the mandible of a specimen of the mosasaurine squamate Mosasaurus hoffmanni, housed in the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht collections. The extensive nature of the infection and the formation of reparative bone tissue isolating the infection suggests that the mosasaur survived the infection for a prolonged period of time. The cause of the infection remains speculative.
Key words: Cretaceous, infection, Maastrichtian, Mosasaurus, pathology, Squamata.
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