Yes it is 66 million years of vomiting

People are not the only animals that lose their lunch. Just look at your family dog ​​or cat – or on this, the ancient Upchuck recently discovered a fossil hunter in Denmark.

Scientifically speaking, the find is regurgititis – or the stony remains of the gastric content of an animal. This is a remarkable excavation specimen that, like other fossils of traces, shows how ancient animals benefit from their environment.

The local fossil hunter Peter Benike noticed the fossilized remains in a piece of Cretaceous in Clint of Stevens in Denmark (or Rocks of Steves), on Zealand Island. Hurl dates back to 66 million years – the late Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs inadvertently lived in their last days on Earth.

According to an Eastern Zealand Museum releaseThe model was cleaned and studied by John Jagt, a sea lily expert. Jagt came to the conclusion that Upchuck consisted of two ancient types of sea lilies, scattered and amorphous enough, that it seemed to have been stretched out of an animal. Researchers do not believe that sea lilies were consumed by a dinosaur in the ancient created seas, but by ancient fish.

“Sea lilies are not a particularly nutritious diet, as they consist mainly of limestone plates, kept together of very few soft parts,” says Jesper Milan, curator of Geomuseum Fax, in a museum edition. “But here’s an animal, probably a species of fish that 66 million years ago eaten sea lilies that lived at the bottom of the Crade Sea and regulated the skeletal parts back.”

In other words, the preliminary understanding of the scientists of scientists is that the fish has not had a problem with the vague bits of the sea lilies, because they can simply be thrown away while the fish absorb the parts of the animals that can be held.

The ancient Upchuck has a moment in the spotlight. At the end of last year a team of paleontologists published a Comprehensive analysis Dinosaur vomits (and cares too!) Of what Poland is now. These discoveries published in NatureHe revealed how dinosaurs adapt to their environment and shape them through their habits. Indeed, vomiting and stool are ichnophosils, which show how many symbiotic ancient spheres of life were and regurgitalites are an important piece in this puzzle.

According to the Østsjællands museum, the Danish regurgititis will be shown in the fax of Geomuseum this winter. But if you can’t get to Denmark, the photo you will have to do. Either way it will not smell of vomiting – a fact that we are all grateful for.