Worms Crawl In, Poop Comes Out
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Location:
Thompson Butte
Caputa
, SD
United States
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South Dakota US
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Dimensions:
1mm x 0.5mm
Not only do we have the fossilized remains of a crab (Dakoticancer sp.), we have coprolites! These tiny coprolite pellets are thought to have been left by segmented worms that fed on the little crab corpses.
Source: Gale A. Bishop did a study of discussing this subject in a paper entitled, "Pierre Feces: A Scatological Study of the Dakoticancer Assemblage, Pierre Shale (Upper Cretaceous) of South Dakota." This doubly interesting little crab was one of those collected as part of that study.
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