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Jingmai O’Connor

joined in Jan 31, 2020

Professor at Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

O’Connor has 1 break published.

Microraptor and Indrasaurus: food for thought

Fossils are rare - fossils with traces of food even more so. However, only these can tell us something about an extinct species' diet. Knowledge of predator-prey relationships is necessary to better understand ancient ecosystems, like the 131-120 million-year-old Jehol Biota in northeastern China. Through... click to read more

Jingmai O’Connor | Professor at Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

microraptor

Jehol ecosystem

indrasaurus

stomach contents

predator-prey relationship

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 31, 2020

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