Análisis de varios casos de zoopaleopatología del Eoceno medio de Zamora (España)

Resumen

The present study describes a series of injuries and pathological anomalies, detected in the fossile fauna of the Middle Eocen of Corrales del Vino (Zamora, Spain) including traumatic, infectious and congenital assumptions. Case nº 1 includes a description of a big size osteitis located in the diaphisis of a femur of Iberosuchus macrodon. In case nº 2 a clear malformation in the osteal sutures of a pigal plate of Allaeochelys jimenezi is described. Case nº 3 describes five plates from the chest and the back of Neochelys sp with bites and erosions attributed to a crocodile attack. In case nº 4 a right almost complete collarbone of ?Iberosuchus is exposed with evident marks of depredation. In case nº 5 two fishbones of Vixperca corrochani with a couple of callus caused by fractures is presented. Case nº 6 shows the marks of a possible osteitis piógena of bacterial origin which appears on the surface of the internal face of a metatarsian of Lophiodontidae.