US EditionBromacker Regurgitalite Reveals What an Early Land Predator Spit up 290 Million Years Ago
The fossilized regurgitalite offers rare insight into terrestrial food webs from 290 million years ago, revealing prey species and predator behavior, researchers said.
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This exceptional size and age sample provides scientists with an opportunity to better understand the ecosystems of the time.
Bromacker regurgitalite reveals what an early land predator spit up 290 million years ago
New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS (France) documents the earliest occurrence of a fossilized regurgitation produced by a strictly terrestrial predator from the early Permian Bromacker locality. Led by MfN doctoral researcher Arnaud Rebillard, the international team identified the bone content preserved within the regurgitation and discovered remains belong…
It dates back about 290 million years, several tens of millions of years before dinosaurs appeared.
In Germany, an international team of researchers has identified the oldest terrestrial fossil vomit known to date. It is about 290 million years old and belongs to the ancestors of dinosaurs. It would belong to a superpredator. - "Lightening on the behaviour of superpredators": researchers have discovered the oldest fossilized vomit (Sciences).
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