The Dinosource
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The Dinosource
016 - The Scoop on Dino-poop (Borealopelta and Gryposaurus)
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Episode 16
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References
- Discussion of evidence of late sauropods (titanosaurs) eating grasses in India, as seen in their poop
- Rhamphorynchus with a big ol’ fish in its stomach
- Turns out herbivorous dinosaurs ate plants. This paper is far less about what they ate and far more about how we know we’ve found stomach or gut contents (enterolites or cololites).
- Evidence of dung beetles in dino poop!
- Carnivorous poop fossilizes better than herbivorous poop
- T. rex poop! But in fancy science words.
- Maiasaura ate wood
- Incredible preservation of muscle in a dino-poop
- “Herbivore” doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it does: it seems some plant-muncher was also chomping on crustaceans.
- Telling fossilized poop from fossilized vomit: harder than it sounds.
- Want more info on how coprolites and similar terms were named? Well have I got a highly amusing paper for you.
- Original description of Gryposaurus in the Ottawa Naturalist
- Borealopelta was a fussy eater
- The open access paper describing Borealopelta
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