Sten Lennart Jakobsen
66 million years ago, one fish ate at least two sea lilies that will not have fallen very well. He eventually vomited them, and the traces of this indisposition were still, until this week, hidden in a cliff.
A piece of fossilized vomiting that dates back to the time when the dinosaurs inhabited the earth was discovered this week in Denmark, the East Zealand Museum said.
Peter Bennicke, who considers herself a “nerd of fossils”, was taking a walk through the stevns cliffs when she discovered this old rarity.
Experts confirmed that it is, in fact, a piece of vomiting, probably a fishdated the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago – the time of dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
“This type of finding is considered very important in the reconstruction of ecosystems because it provides important information about which animals have been eaten by which ones, ”explains the museum in a statement quoted by the
“This is the most famous piece of vomiting in the world“Paleontologist Jesper Milan told.
“This discovery is a unique glimpse of the daily situation at the bottom of the Cretaceous Sea “The sea during which dinosaurs lived,” says the investigator. “Tell us something about who ate who had 66 million years ago,” he concluded.
The author of a fish that ingested two different species of sea lilies (crinoid), an aquatic animal that looks more like a plant. It will not have fallen very well.
“Sreing lilies are not a particularly nutritious diet, as they consist mainly of limestone plates joined by some soft parts,” says Milan. “But here is an animal, probably a kind of fish, which has been 66 million years ago Comi Lilies-of-Mar who lived at the bottom of the Cretaceous Sea and regurgitated the parts of the skeleton. ”
