Synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography of coprolites generates novel palaeobiological data

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 techniques of investigation, which cannot find and image the inclusions in an adequate manner. We de...

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Autores principales: Qvarnström, Martin, Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz, Tafforeau, Paul, Žigaitė, Živil, Ahlberg, Per E.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5457397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28578409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02893-9
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description 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 techniques of investigation, which cannot find and image the inclusions in an adequate manner. We demonstrate that propagation phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography (PPC-SRμCT) permits high-quality virtual 3D-reconstruction of coprolite inclusions, exemplified by two coprolites from the Upper Triassic locality Krasiejów, Poland; one of the coprolites contains delicate beetle remains, and the other one a partly articulated fish and fragments of bivalves.
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spelling pubmed-54573972017-06-06 Synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography of coprolites generates novel palaeobiological data Qvarnström, Martin Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz Tafforeau, Paul Žigaitė, Živil Ahlberg, Per E. Sci Rep Article 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 techniques of investigation, which cannot find and image the inclusions in an adequate manner. We demonstrate that propagation phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography (PPC-SRμCT) permits high-quality virtual 3D-reconstruction of coprolite inclusions, exemplified by two coprolites from the Upper Triassic locality Krasiejów, Poland; one of the coprolites contains delicate beetle remains, and the other one a partly articulated fish and fragments of bivalves. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5457397/ /pubmed/28578409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02893-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5457397/
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