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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Gastrolithstended to be universally dull, although the colors represented were varied including black, dark brown, purplish red and grey-blue.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While most predators do not usegastrolithsfor grinding of food, almost all reasonably complete elasmosaur specimens includegastroliths.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Large numbers of smallgastrolithsare usually associated with species that need to grind tough plant material, such as seeds, after swallowing them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The clean cuts and lack ofgastrolithssuggest that the animal relied on oral processing instead ofgastrolithsor grit to grind food.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The specimen consists of the skull and neck, as well asgastrolithsfound along with the fossil.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fossilgastrolithshave been found associated with both ornithopods and sauropods, though whether they actually functioned as a gastric mill in the latter is disputed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lacking teeth, they swallow pebbles that act asgastrolithsto grind food in the gizzard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While crocodiles and some other animals may usegastrolithsfor ballast today, it appears likely that elasmosaurs used them as a gastric mill.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This may have given them the advantage needed to usurp the formidable sauropods, who depended ongastrolithsfor grinding food, from their ecological niches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.High numbers ofgastrolithsindicate that they could not have been ingested accidentally.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many ornithomimosaurs, including primitive species, have been found with numerousgastrolithsin their stomachs, characteristic of herbivores.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lacking teeth that are suitable for efficiently chewing of their food, turtles often havegastrolithsin their stomach to further grind the plant material.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is known from a skull and partial articulated skeleton withgastroliths.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thus crabs eyes (i.e.,gastroliths), pearls, oyster shells, and coral were supposed to have different properties.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Over 150 pebbles, representinggastroliths, were found within the rib cage; the largest has a diameter of 6 centimeters (2 in).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Others were undoubtedly swallowed by other dinosaurs and highly polishedgastrolithsmay have been swallowed repeatedly.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other appendicular (non-vertebral) material includes a very incomplete and fragmentary shaft of the pubis, and over one hundredgastroliths.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the construction, the site was plagued by the free-roaming herd of titanosaurs, which were probably searching the site forgastroliths.
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