Re: Pic of Dino Vomit oops!!

[Silvio Renesto <renesto@mailserver.unimi.it>]

Sorry, the message was sent unintentionally truncated before I finished it!

I wanted to add that we carried out  an extensive reseach upon feeding 
mechanisms in durophagous fishes comparing extant species with fossil ones 
and saw how extant one are able to pick, chew and spite out the shell of a 
mollusc while retaining the fleshy part. Then we compared the pattern of te 
ejected molluscs remain with fossil ones.
For those interested, email Andrea.Tintori@unimi.it.
Maybe ichtyosaurs may have behaved like "rammers" fishes rushing at 
belemnites and cutting off the guardwhen biting.
Some  Tanystropheus  specimens have apparently  hooklets of belemnites in 
their belly, but no guards. Hard to envisage they vomited something as a 
normal procedure given their necks!
All the best,

                                Silvio


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