Preservation of Arctic dinosaur remains from the Prince Creek Formation (Alaska, USA): A reply to Fiorillo (2016)

• Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Main Authors: Hirotsugu Mori, Patrick S. Druckenmiller, Gregory M. Erickson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Paleobiology PAS 2016
• Subjects: Alaska; bonebed; Cretaceous; fossils; Fossil man. Human paleontology; GN282-286.7; Paleontology; QE701-760; Arctic; Prince Creek
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00234.2015; https://doaj.org/article/ba6445db83634c5b858b58dfa1e67a6d

We thank Anthony Fiorillo (2016) for the concerns he raised regarding our characterizations of the Liscomb bonebed fossils in our paper describing Ugrunaaluk kuukpikenis from the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, USA (Mori et al. 2016). We did not imply that the bones are not “fossilized”. The bones are from animals that lived in the geologic past (~70 million years old) and are therefore fossils by definition.