“Jättereptilen Smok lived in the ben”
“the Analyses of the 210 million year old coprolites – fossilised faeces – has revealed the diet of the vast rovreptilen Smok wawelski who lived in Europe at the time.”
“the Scientists note that the beast of high degree lived on the bones, just like a modern-day hyena.”
“Koproliterna, found in the south of Poland, have been analysed with synkrotrontomografi, a type of x-ray that reveals the inner parts of the fossils.”
“the x-ray shows that the koproliterna consists to the half of the pieces of bone from prey that Smok lived – among other things, the vastness of the salamanderliknande amphibians and young animals of the colossal däggdjursreptilen Lisowicia.”
“in Addition found a few of rovreptilens own teeth in koproliterna. These were crushed, which suggests that the bestens tandgarnityr took a lot of beating by bendieten.”
“– the Teeth broke when the animals chewed on the bones. For us would not have been so good, but with the Smok, as well as of other reptiles, were destroyed teeth quickly with new ones that emerged, ” says Per Ahlberg, professor of evolutionary organism biology at Uppsala university, and one of the researchers behind the study.”
“– The most important thing about the discovery is that it has given us a picture of Smoks life. A skeleton derived from a dead animal, but coprolites are the remains of living animals. That is what is so exciting with the coprolites. You never know what you can expect when you examine them.”
“Further evidence for Smoks bendiet has been found in the area, for example, worn teeth, fossil vomit with bone remains and bones of their prey with bite marks.”
“the Lure of the Tyrannosaurus rex”
“Smok belonged to arkosaurierna, the same branch of the reptilträdet as crocodiles and dinosaurs. Exactly where it belongs on the tree is unclear, but it was the largest predator in Europe at the end of the triassic period 210 million years ago, with a length of six metres and a weight of just over half a tonne.”
“– Functionally it is Smok as a dinosaur, and there were dinosaurs at the time, which means that the Smok may be one such. But it can also be a krokodilsläkting, ” says Ahlberg.”
“He is fascinated by the animal’s head, which was very solid.”
“– It resembles the head of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived much later, ” he says.”
“Rovreptilen Smok wawelski has been named after a dragon that is famous in Polish folklore.”
“It belonged to arkosaurierna (Archosauria), a subclass of reptiles that includes crocodiles, …, dinosaurs and their closest relatives. The earliest arkosaurierna lived around 250 million years ago, at the transition between the geological periods of the permian and the triassic.”
“the Birds are also archosaur, since they are descended in a direct line from dinosaurs.”
“Source: Scientific reports, NE”