Fossil Biomarkers and Biosignatures Preserved in Coprolites Reveal Carnivorous Diets in the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Ecosystem

The reconstruction of ancient trophic networks is pivotal to our understanding of ecosystem function and change through time. However, inferring dietary relationships in enigmatic ecosystems dominated by organisms without modern analogues, such as the Carboniferous Mazon Creek fauna, has previously...

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Main Authors: Madison Tripp, Jasmina Wiemann, Jochen Brocks, Paul Mayer, Lorenz Schwark, Kliti Grice
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-08-01
Series:Biology
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/9/1289