Ancient Tree-Stump Skull Rewrites When Land Animals Began to Graze
TL;DR
A 307-million-year-old skull recovered from a fossilized tree stump in Nova Scotia reveals grinding teeth suited for plants in Tyrannoroter heberti, pushing back the origin of herbivory among land vertebrates to the Carboniferous and suggesting multiple independent plant-eating lineages.
Topics:sciencesciencepaleontology#carboniferous#herbivory#micro-ct-scanning#sciencepaleontology#stem-amniotes#tyrannoroter-heberti
- A 307-Million-Year-Old Creature Found in a Fossilized Tree Is Turning Early Animal History on Its Head Indian Defence Review
- Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants Phys.org
- Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory Nature
- This 300 Million Year Old Fossil Is the First Land Animal Known To Eat Its Veggies ZME Science
- Canadian fossil reveals one of the first plant-eating animals Reuters
Want the full story? Read the original reporting
Read on Indian Defence Review