gastrolithanatomy

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  • dinosaur digestion ( in dinosaur: The plant eaters )

    ...unusual bacterial population in the intestines to break down the fibre. A digestive tract with one or more crop chambers containing stones might have aided in the food-pulverizing process, but such gastroliths, or “stomach-stones,” are only rarely found in association with dinosaur skeletons. (A Seismosaurus specimen found with several hundred such...

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