Article ; Online: Paleobiological inferences from paleopathological occurrences in the Arctic ceratopsian Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum.
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
2022 Volume 306, Issue 7, Page(s) 1697–1711
Abstract: As a key tool for understanding how animals lived in the past, paleopathology informs us about the lives and deaths of fossil animals. We identify paleopathologies within an assemblage of bones of the pachyrostran centrosaurine Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, ...
Abstract | As a key tool for understanding how animals lived in the past, paleopathology informs us about the lives and deaths of fossil animals. We identify paleopathologies within an assemblage of bones of the pachyrostran centrosaurine Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, an Arctic ceratopsian. More than 1,000 bones of this dinosaur were collected from the Prince Creek Formation of North Slope, Alaska from fossil sites along the Colville River. Our survey shows the occurrence of paleopathology to be very low and comparable to other populations of horned dinosaurs from the lower latitudes, suggesting that the ancient Arctic environment did not impose intense hardships on these dinosaurs greater than in other environments, as expressed by paleopathological modification of the skeleton. This result may be due to the more equable mean annual temperatures in the Arctic region during the Cretaceous. Also of interest, the frequency of occurrence of paleopathology in the Arctic Pachyrhinosaurus population is very low compared to populations of fossil and historic quadrupedal artiodactyls that are recognized as long distance wanderers. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Arctic Regions ; Dinosaurs/anatomy & histology ; Fossils ; Bone and Bones/anatomy & histology ; Alaska |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2022-10-22 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
ZDB-ID | 2269667-2 |
ISSN | 1932-8494 ; 1932-8486 |
ISSN (online) | 1932-8494 |
ISSN | 1932-8486 |
DOI | 10.1002/ar.25104 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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