Using hundreds of samples of fossilised faeces, vomit and intestinal contents, alongside bones and footprints, researchers traced the rise of the dinosaurs over millions of years.
Hundreds of samples of fossilised faeces, vomit and intestinal contents were analysed to understand dinosaur evolution in Poland.
"As climate change brought wetter environments and new types of plants, these versatile eaters were better at exploiting the new resources."Early in the Triassic, around 250 million years ago, Earth was recovering from an extinction event known as the "Great Dying". The world was dominated by mammal-like reptiles.and archosaurs — a group that includes dinosaurs — took their place.
What animals ate, and how that changed over time, can provide clues to environmental changes in a way that fossilised bones or trackways can't.A large part of Dr Qvarnström's study involved linking fossilised faeces to the type of dinosaur that left them. "Did the dinosaurs eat charcoal from burnt plants? Perhaps it served to detoxify stomach contents," Dr Niedzwiedzki said.According to Steven Salisbury, a palaeontologist at the University of Queensland who was not involved in the paper, the large collection of fossils created an "interesting snapshot" of the time period."It's not just the coprolites and it's not just the body fossils. It's the plants, it's the tracks, it's everything together.
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