Bibliography Record

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 Repenning, Charles A.; Packard, Earl L. (detail)
   
1990
Locomotion of a desmostylian and evidence of ancient shark predation. In: A. J. Boucot (ed.), Evolutionary paleobiology of behavior and coevolution.
Amsterdam, Elsevier (xxiii + 725): 199-203. Figs. 179-183.
–Describes the circumstances of occurrence and taphonomy of the Stanford (California) Paleoparadoxia skeleton, attributes fractures of its hind legs to a fall, and suggests shark attack as the cause of death. Also describes details of the hindlimb and other joints, interpreting them to indicate somewhat froglike postures in both terrestrial and aquatic locomotion, and a terrestrial gait similar to that of otarioid pinnipeds.

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California
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Santa Clara Co.; 199.)
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia; California; 201-203.)
Miocene
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia; California [Stanford specimen]; 199.)
Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia; Mioc., California; 199-203.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia; Mioc., California; sharks; 199-201.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia; Mioc., California; 199-203.)
Paleoparadoxia tabatai (Tokunaga, 1939) Reinhart, 1959
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard ("P. tabati"; California [Stanford specimen]; taphonomy, pathology, locomotion; 199-203.)
Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x D 1990 Repenning & Packard (Paleoparadoxia [Stanford specimen]; fractures; 199-203.)

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