Lukas VFN 🇪🇺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.