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Paleontology

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"Paleontology is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock."

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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

ostracods, a small crustacean that remains common today (there are 13,000 existing ostracod species). Some of these appear to be larval versions of the animal. There are also fragments of thin shells that probably were derived from shellfish like clams and mussels, as well as some pieces of an echinoderm (think starfish and sea urchins).

Overall, the most striking thing about the food present is the sheer variety of it. It appears as if the animal hoovered up anything with a shell it came across on the floor of the body of water it was living in.