Joel Kontinen
Coprolites or animal dung can often consist of disappointment or even surprises, Recently,
A corporile in Poland was dated with the
Triassic period, some 230 million years ago ,
The researchers found “ incredibly
preserved, nearly complete insects just 1.4
millimeters long, as well as fragments like heads, antennae, and legs, they
report recently in Current Biology.”
“The new species came from dung presumed to have been excreted by Silesaurus
opolensis, a beaked dinosaur ancestor about 2.3 meters in length.”
The fossil was a beetle named Triamyxa coprolithica. .
Source:
Raghavan. Akila, 2021, This ancient beetle is the first new species discovered in fossilized poop Science 30 June,
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