Cretaceous Ecological Food Web (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Cretaceous Ecological Food Web

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This illustration depicts the food web for ecological groups in the late Cretaceous Period as reported in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Each ecological group includes a set of species that share the same set of potential predators and prey. Silhouettes show iconic members of each group. Arrows show who eats whom.

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Courtesy of Jonathan Mitchell, Peter Roopnarine and Kenneth Angielczyk

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