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Lundadagarna i Historisk Geologi och Paleontologi is a conference held every second year at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Division of Geology, Lund University. Since the start in 1989, Lundadagarna has been an important opportunity for researchers from Scandinavia to get updated on the direction of the research field and new results, as well as a forum for discussing projects and exchanging ideas. As always, we are happy to announce a wide range of talks and posters within the field of historical geology and palaeontology. This year 35 participants contributed with 17 talks and 7 posters during Lundadagarna XII, 17-18th of March 2011. We would like to thank all participants for their contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although plesiosaurs and mosasaurs co-existed for about 35 million years at the end of the Cretaceous, the fossil record documenting interactions between these two groups of marine reptiles is meagre. The discovery of deeply incised scars on a limb bone of an immature polycotylid plesiosaur from the latest early Campanian (in the European two-fold division of the Campanian Stage) of the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden, is thus significant because it represents a rare example of predation or scavenging on an immature polycotylid plesiosaur by a large mosasaur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]