33 million years ago, a crocodile's excrement was stepped on, and then it was buried unexpectedly and became a strange fossil of the coexistence of crocodile footprints and excrement.
The world's first crocodile footprint fecal fossil was discovered by Deng Tao's research team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) in cooperation with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology at the Nayang site in Vietnam. As the first important achievement of the cooperation project between the Institute of Ancient Spine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Vietnam National Museum of Natural History, it was recently published online in the international professional academic journal Palaeoworld.
On February 22, researcher Deng Tao was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency in Beijing and said that the latest research is the first time in the world that the fossilized feces of crocodiles are integrated with the fossils of crocodile footprints.
The research results were jointly completed by researchers from four countries. In addition to the cooperation between China and Vietnam, the first author of the paper is Kaiser, a Turkish doctoral student from the research team of the Institute of Paleo-Spine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the corresponding author of the paper is a Malaysian from the research team of the Institute of Paleo-Spine, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr Paul Lamy.
On the same day, Paul Lamy was also interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency. Popular science interpreted the world's first 33 million-year-old crocodile footprint fecal fossil research results.
(Reporter Sun Zifa produced Le Xiaomin)
Responsible editor: [Chen Wentao]