Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Sep 30, 2023

Advanced imaging reveals the last bite of a 465-million-year-old trilobite https://phys.org/news/2023-09-advanced-imaging-reveals-million-year-old-trilobite.html

Uniquely preserved gut contents illuminate #trilobite #palaeophysiology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06567-7

"The digestive tract of the trilobite #Bohemolichas incola was tightly packed with #calcareous #shells and their fragments that belonged to marine #invertebrates such as #ostracods, #bivalves and #echinoderms, some of them identifiable to the species level."

Advanced imaging reveals the last bite of a 465-million-year-old trilobite

Paleontologists from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, and their colleagues describes a 465-million-year-old trilobite with preserved gut contents in a new study. The research was published in Nature.

Phys.org
Massimo LucianiSep 28, 2023

#paleontology #fossils #trilobites #Ordovician #Bohemolichas

An article published in the journal "Nature" reports a study on a trilobite fossil of the species Bohemolichas incola dating back to around 465 million years ago, in the Middle Ordovician period, which reveals the contents of its guts in the last meal that occurred before its death. A team of researchers subjected the fossil in to a sophisticated synchrotron microtomography.

https://english.netmassimo.com/2023/09/28/an-examination-reveals-the-last-meal-of-a-trilobite-that-lived-465-million-years-ago/

An examination reveals the last meal of a trilobite that lived 465 million years ago

An article published in the journal 'Nature' reports a study on a trilobite fossil of the species Bohemolichas incola dating back to around 465 million years...