Discoveries continue in the world of paleontology at Dinosaur National Monument. A fascinating discovery by researchers at the University of Texas found that a record of a dinosaur’s favorite foods is carefully preserved in the dinosaur’s tooth enamel. The lead doctoral graduate of the University of Texas’s Jackson School of Geosciences, Liam Norris, inspected the teeth of four dinosaur species in the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur National Monument. He was able to differentiate the types of foods preferred by four different plant eating dinosaurs. “We were very lucky to be able to study fossils of dinosaurs that lived together and were all rapidly preserved in a single deposit,” said Rowan Martindale, an associate professor at the Jackson School’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. “The Jurassic tomb preserved a unique paleontological gem and these skeletons are beautifully displayed at Dinosaur National Monument.” A full feature on the study and its discoveries can be found at JSG.UTexas.edu.
PC: Liam Norris
