[Rockhounds] We finally know for sure what a trilobite ate

[Dora Smith]

So we can only know trilobites ate if the fossil has fossilized bone or 
shell in the gut?  So if the trilobites ate things with no shells, or 
plants, we don't have any evidence of what they ate. Surely such a large 
and varied group ate a lot of things.

Dora

On 10/10/23 1:22 PM, Paul wrote:
> We finally know for sure what a trilobite ate
>
> Tens of thousands of fossils later, we've found a trilobite with a 
> full stomach.
>
> John Timmer, ArsTechnica, September 27, 2023
>
> https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/we-finally-know-for-sure-what-a-trilobite-ate/ 
>
>
> The open access paper is:
>
> Kraft, P., Vaškaninová, V., Mergl, M., Budil, P., Fatka, O.
>
> and Ahlberg, P.E., 2023. Uniquely preserved gut contents
>
> illuminate trilobite palaeophysiology./Nature/, pp.1-7.
>
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06567-7
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
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