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English: Not all fossils stories are read from the skeletal remains of animals. Coprolite are fossilized animals faeces and they tell scientists a great deal about the diets, habits and internal organs of the animals that made them. By examining the insides of fossil droppings, we can tell what was being eaten but we can't always tell who was doing the eating.
Left: This one ate fish-look at all scales in its droppings. It may actually be a regurgitate from the flat-headed amphibian, Rhinesuchus Centre: These coprolites were probably left behind by large carnivorous gorgonopsians such as Gorgonops. You can see that it gulped down a small dicynodont without chewing! If you look closely, you'll see that one of its legs is still intact after having passed right through the gut Right: A clump of three coprolites still embedded in rock as they were found. These do not contain bone fragments and were probably all dropped at once by one of the herbivorous dicynodonts such as Oudenodon |
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