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Microbiota and food residues including possible evidence of pre‐mammalian hair in Upper Permian coprolites from Russia
- P. Bajdek, Martin Qvarnström, +4 authors G. Niedźwiedzki
- Biology
- 1 October 2016
Coprolites (fossil faeces) provide direct evidence on the diet of its producer and unique insights on ancient food webs and ecosystems. We describe the contents of seven coprolites, collected from… Expand
Synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography of coprolites generates novel palaeobiological data
- Martin Qvarnström, G. Niedźwiedzki, P. Tafforeau, Živil Žigaitė, P. Ahlberg
- Biology, Medicine
- Scientific Reports
- 2 June 2017
Coprolites (fossil faeces) reveal clues to ancient trophic relations, and contain inclusions representing organisms that are rarely preserved elsewhere. However, much information is lost by classical… Expand
Reduction of vertebrate coprolite diversity associated with the end-Permian extinction event in Vyazniki region, European Russia
- G. Niedźwiedzki, P. Bajdek, Martin Qvarnström, T. Sulej, A. G. Sennikov, V. Golubev
- Geology
- 15 May 2016
Abstract This study investigates the paleoecological significance of vertebrate coprolites collected from seven sections and three lithofacies of the uppermost Permian and lowermost Triassic… Expand
Vertebrate coprolites (fossil faeces) : An underexplored Konservat-Lagerstatte
- Martin Qvarnström, G. Niedźwiedzki, Živilė Žigaitė
- Biology
- 1 November 2016
Abstract Fossilized soft tissues of animals (e.g. muscles, hair and feathers) are valuable sources of palaeobiological information, but a poor preservation potential makes them undesirably scarce in… Expand
The first direct evidence of a Late Devonian coelacanth fish feeding on conodont animals
- M. Zatoń, K. Broda, Martin Qvarnström, G. Niedźwiedzki, P. Ahlberg
- Geology, Medicine
- The Science of Nature
- 10 March 2017
We describe the first known occurrence of a Devonian coelacanth specimen from the lower Famennian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, with a conodont element preserved in its digestive tract. A… Expand
Trace and rare earth element compositions of Silurian conodonts from the Vesiku Bone Bed: Histological and palaeoenvironmental implications
- Živilė Žigaitė, Martin Qvarnström, Alyssa Bancroft, A. Pérez-Huerta, Henning Blom, P. Ahlberg
- Geology
- 1 July 2020
Abstract In-situ minor, trace and rare earth element (REE) compositions have been measured in conodonts from the lower Silurian Vesiku Bone Bed (Estonia), with the aim to visualize and to quantify… Expand
Beetle-bearing coprolites possibly reveal the diet of a Late Triassic dinosauriform
- Martin Qvarnström, Joel Vikberg Wernström, Rafał Piechowski, Mateusz Tałanda, P. Ahlberg, G. Niedźwiedzki
- Biology, Medicine
- Royal Society Open Science
- 1 March 2019
Diets of extinct animals can be difficult to analyse if no direct evidence, such as gut contents, is preserved in association with body fossils. Inclusions from coprolites (fossil faeces), however,… Expand
Tyrannosaurid-like osteophagy by a Triassic archosaur
- Martin Qvarnström, P. Ahlberg, G. Niedźwiedzki
- Biology, Medicine
- Scientific Reports
- 30 January 2019
Here we present evidence for osteophagy in the Late Triassic archosaur Smok wawelski Niedźwiedzki, Sulej and Dzik, 2012, a large theropod-like predator from Poland. Ten medium to large-sized… Expand
Non-marine palaeoenvironment associated to the earliest tetrapod tracks
- Martin Qvarnström, P. Szrek, P. Ahlberg, G. Niedźwiedzki
- Geology, Medicine
- Scientific Reports
- 18 January 2018
Opinions differ on whether the evolution of tetrapods (limbed vertebrates) from lobe-finned fishes was directly linked to terrestrialization. The earliest known tetrapod fossils, from the Middle… Expand
A new charophyte flora from the Upper Triassic of Skane (Sweden) and implications on biostratigraphy, taphonomy and the palaeoenvironment
- Martin Qvarnström, G. Niedźwiedzki
- Geology
- 1 February 2018
Abstract The record of fossil charophytes from Sweden was previously restricted to the Ladinian-earliest Carnian Falsterbo Formation. Here, we present a charophyte assemblage from the Upper Triassic… Expand