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SUBMITTER: Qvarnstrom M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6458417 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qvarnström Martin M Wernström Joel Vikberg JV Piechowski Rafał R Tałanda Mateusz M Ahlberg Per E PE Niedźwiedzki Grzegorz G
Royal Society open science 20190313 3
Diets of extinct animals can be difficult to analyse if no direct evidence, such as gut contents, is preserved in association with body fossils. Inclusions from coprolites (fossil faeces), however, may also reflect the diet of the host animal and become especially informative if the coprolite producer link can be established. Here we describe, based on propagation phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography (PPC-SRμCT), the contents of five morphologically similar coprolites collected from two fo ...[more]