due to clues left behind by the fossilized bones of baby dinosaurs found in the mammals’ stomach.
“The co-existence of these two animals is not new, but what’s new to science through this amazing fossil is the predatory behavior it shows,” Mallon said. The fossil in this study was unearthed in China’s Liaoning Province in 2012 and is now in the collections of the Weihai Ziguang Shi Yan School Museum in China’s Shandong Province. The skeletons of both animals are nearly complete, and they come from an area known as the that has been dubbed. Many of the fossilized mammals, lizards, dinosaurs, and amphibians that have been found there were buried following one or more volcanic eruptions.
The fossil was in the care of study co-author Gang Han in China, who brought it to the attention of Canadian Museum of Nature palaeobiologist Xiao-Chun Wu. Fossil showing the entangled skeletons of Psittacosaurus and Repenomamus and their interaction just before death. The scale bar equals 10 centimeters . CREDIT: Gang Han.