eprintid: 10188862
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datestamp: 2024-03-12 12:42:45
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creators_name: Jamison-Todd, Sarah
creators_name: Mannion, Philip
creators_name: Glover, Adrian
creators_name: Upchurch, Paul
title: New occurrences of the bone-eating worm Osedax in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F57
keywords: bioerosion, biogeography, Cretaceous, marine reptiles, Osedax, Western Interior Seaway
note: © 2024 The Authors.

Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
abstract: The bone-eating worm Osedax is a speciose and globally distributed clade, primarily found on whale carcasses in marine environments. The earliest fossil evidence for Osedax borings was previously described in plesiosaur and sea turtle bones from the mid-Cretaceous of the United Kingdom, representing the only unequivocal pre-Oligocene occurrences. Confirming through CT scanning, we present new evidence of Osedax borings in three plesiosaur specimens and, for the first time, identify borings in two mosasaur specimens. All specimens are from the Late Cretaceous: one from the Cenomanian of the United Kingdom, two from the Campanian of the southeastern United States, and two from the Maastrichtian of Belgium. This extends the geographic range of Osedax in the Cretaceous to both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean. The bones contain five borehole morphotypes, potentially created by different species of Osedax, with the Cenomanian specimen containing three morphotypes within a single tooth. This combined evidence of heightened species diversity by the Cenomanian and broad geographic range by the Campanian potentially indicates an earlier origin and diversification for this clade than previously hypothesized. Preservational biases indicate that Osedax was probably even more widely distributed and speciose in the Cretaceous than apparent in the fossil record.
date: 2024-04-10
date_type: published
publisher: Royal Society, The
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2830
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2256570
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2830
lyricists_name: Mannion, Philip
lyricists_id: PDMAN77
actors_name: Mannion, Philip
actors_id: PDMAN77
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: UF160216, URF\R\221010 [Royal Society]
full_text_status: public
publication: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
volume: 291
article_number: 20232830
issn: 1471-2954
citation:        Jamison-Todd, Sarah;    Mannion, Philip;    Glover, Adrian;    Upchurch, Paul;      (2024)    New occurrences of the bone-eating worm Osedax in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification.                   Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 291     , Article 20232830.  10.1098/rspb.2023.2830 <https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2830>.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188862/7/Walker_s12916-024-03351-w.pdf