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Published: 2014-11-05 05:33:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 938; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 0
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Reconstruction of the Late Cambrian "swallow-stone" trilobite, Neodrepanura premesnili, of the Kushan Formation in China. Fossils of its butterfly-shaped hyponome suggest N. premesnili was carnivorous.Related content
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Kinda funny how I'm used to seeing trilobites all my life, but never in my life did I ever think about what they eat.
How do they figure out if a trilobite is a carnivore or a scum-sucker?
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Its fossils show a large hypostome, a plate on the ventral side of the animal that corresponds to where the mouth used to be. The size of the hypostome gives researchers a good estimate of what size particles the hypostome's owner could stuff into its mouth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostom…
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