Paleopathology, also spelled palaeopathology, is the study of ancient diseases and injuries in organisms through the examination of fossils, mummified...
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Egg paleopathology is the study of evidence for illness, injury, and deformity in fossilized eggs. A variety of pathological conditions afflicting eggs...
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Smilodon (section Paleopathology)
Smilodon is an extinct genus of felids. It is one of the best known saber-toothed predators and prehistoric mammals. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed...
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Plesiosaur (section Paleopathology)
The Plesiosauria or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in...
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Saurolophus (section Paleopathology)
Saurolophus (/sɔːˈrɒləfəs/; meaning "lizard crest") is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia and North America...
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Dromaeosauridae (section Paleopathology)
Dromaeosauridae (/ˌdrɒmi.əˈsɔːrɪdiː/) is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs. They were generally small to medium-sized feathered carnivores...
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Ceprano Man (section Paleopathology)
Ceprano Man, Argil, and Ceprano Calvarium, is a Middle Pleistocene archaic human fossil, a single skull cap (calvarium), accidentally unearthed in a highway...
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Centrosaurus (section Paleopathology)
Centrosaurus (/ˌsɛntroʊˈsɔːrəs/ SEN-troh-SOR-əs; lit. 'pointed lizard') is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from Campanian age of Late Cretaceous...
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Eubrontes (section Paleopathology)
dinosauromorfos. Spain: Larousse. pp. 95 & 120. Molnar, R. E., 2001, Theropod paleopathology: a literature survey: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke...
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Dilophosaurus (section Paleopathology)
77 lb) per year early in life. The holotype specimen had multiple paleopathologies, including healed injuries and signs of a developmental anomaly. Dilophosaurus...
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Sinraptor (section Paleopathology)
1093/zoolinnean/zlae090. ISSN 0024-4082. Molnar, R. E., 2001, Theropod paleopathology: a literature survey: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke...
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Paleoecology Paleogenetics Paleolimnology Paleomycology Paleoneurobiology Paleopathology Paleopedology Paleotempestology Paleozoology Palynology Sclerochronology...
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Camarasaurus (section Paleopathology)
Camarasaurus (/ˌkæmərəˈsɔːrəs/ KAM-ər-ə-SOR-əs) was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil...
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Theropoda (section Paleopathology)
and punctures, often likely originating with bites. Some theropod paleopathologies seem to be evidence of infections, which tended to be confined only...
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Telmatosaurus (section Paleopathology)
Telmatosaurus (meaning "marsh lizard") is a genus of basal hadrosauromorph dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. It was a relatively small hadrosaur...
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Diplodocidae (section Paleopathology)
Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae ("double beams"), are a group of sauropod dinosaurs. The family includes some of the longest creatures...
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Citipati (section Paleopathology)
Citipati ([ˈtʃiːt̪ɪpət̪i]; meaning "funeral pyre lord") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about...
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Machairodontinae (section Paleopathology)
on the care of its parents.[citation needed] In another example of paleopathology supporting the social hypothesis, a large number of Smilodon fossils...
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Tylosaurus (section Paleopathology)
Tylosaurus (/ˌtaɪˈloʊˈsɔːrəs/; "knob lizard") is a genus of russellosaurine mosasaur (an extinct group of predatory marine lizards) that lived about 92...
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Allosaurus (section Paleopathology)
scavengers of giant sauropod-falls, Interestingly, a recent review of paleopathologies in theropods may support this conclusion. The researchers found a positive...
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Iguanodon (section Paleopathology)
Iguanodon (/ɪˈɡwɑːnədɒn/ i-GWAH-nə-don; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species found worldwide...
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Mosasaurus (section Behavior and paleopathology)
Mosasaurus (/ˌmoʊzəˈsɔːrəs/; "lizard of the Meuse River") is the type genus (defining example) of the mosasaurs, an extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles...
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Kocabaş cranium (section Paleopathology)
The Kocabaş cranium is the damaged calvarium fossil of a young Homo erectus discovered near the village of Kocabaş, located in the Denizli Province of...
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Cryolophosaurus (section Paleopathology)
Cryolophosaurus (/ˌkraɪəˌloʊfəˈsɔːrəs/ or /kraɪˌɒləfəˈsɔːrəs/; KRY-ə-LOH-fə-SAWR-əs) is a genus of large theropod dinosaur known from only a single species...
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diseases is pinta, a skin disease and therefore unrecoverable through paleopathology.) Ancient DNA (aDNA) holds the answer, because just as only aDNA suffices...
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Theropod paleopathology is the study of injury and disease in theropod dinosaurs. In 2001, Ralph E. Molnar published a survey of pathologies in theropod...
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them. (Pinta is a skin disease and therefore unrecoverable through paleopathology.) Ancient DNA (aDNA) holds the answer, because just as only aDNA suffices...
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there in 1999. She spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, receiving the degree in 2008. She was a senior teaching fellow at the...
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Velociraptor (section Paleopathology)
Knopf Inc. p. 43. ISBN 9780520225015. Molnar, R.E. (2001). "Theropod Paleopathology: A Literature Survey". In Carpenter, Kenneth; Skrepnick, Michael William;...
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Protoceratops (section Paleopathology)
Protoceratops (/ˌproʊtoʊˈsɛrətɒps/; lit. 'first horned face') is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous...
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