[Rockhounds] "Death By Ammonite" in the JUrassic

[Dora Smith]

 Fish bit off more than it could chew.

Dora
     On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 01:19:59 PM CDT, Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:  
 
 'Like swallowing a dinner plate': 180 million-year-old fish may have 
choked to
death on its supersized supper, Ethan Freedman, LiveScience, August 14, 2023
https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/like-swallowing-a-dinner-plate-180-million-year-old-fish-may-have-choked-to-death-on-its-supersized-supper

"Death By Ammonite" Shows Jurassic Fish's Fatal Last Meal 180 Million 
Years On
Racheal Funnell, IFLscience, August 2, 2023
https://www.iflscience.com/death-by-ammonite-shows-jurassic-fishs-fatal-last-meal-180-million-years-on-70081

The open access paper is:

Cooper, S.L. and Maxwell, E.E., 2023. Death by ammonite: fatal ingestion 
of an
ammonoid shell by an Early Jurassic bony fish. Geological Magazine, 
160(7), pp.1254-1261.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/death-by-ammonite-fatal-ingestion-of-an-ammonoid-shell-by-an-early-jurassic-bony-fish/B60DF47ED624AF34CB3F7CF54EFB15F3

Yours,

Paul H.

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