{"id":41834,"date":"2025-01-29T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41834"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:33:40","slug":"word-of-the-day-1020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/29\/word-of-the-day-1020\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Regurgitalite<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Regurgitalites<\/b>, or sometimes\u00a0<b>Regurgitaliths,<\/b>\u00a0are the\u00a0<a title=\"Fossil\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil\">fossilized<\/a>\u00a0remains of stomach contents that have been\u00a0<a title=\"Regurgitation (digestion)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regurgitation_(digestion)\">regurgitated<\/a>\u00a0by an animal, such as an\u00a0<a title=\"Pellet (ornithology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pellet_(ornithology)\">owl pellet<\/a>. They are\u00a0<a title=\"Bromalite\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bromalite\">bromalite<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Trace fossil\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trace_fossil\">trace fossils<\/a>\u00a0and can be subdivided into\u00a0<a title=\"Ichnotaxon\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ichnotaxon\">ichnotaxa<\/a>. Regurgitaliths might provide useful information on the diet of the animal,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gordon2020_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0but are difficult to relate to any particular\u00a0<a title=\"Species\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regurgitalite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/01\/28\/fossil-vomit-prehistoric-crinoid-sea-lily\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F40b8047%2F679913bd86a16346eb514bca%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F26%2F56%2F679913bd86a16346eb514bca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Prehistoric puke offers clues about ancient sea predators\u2019 diets<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Leo Sands, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists were able to determine that the remains were fossilized vomit \u2014 rather than a run-of-the-mill fossil \u2014 because of how the two crinoid species were so tightly concentrated in a round clump. Milan said the regurgitalite, the scientific name for fossilized vomit, was probably buried under chalk soon after being spewed out, preventing it from being torn apart by other animals on the seafloor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regurgitalite: Regurgitalites, or sometimes\u00a0Regurgitaliths,\u00a0are the\u00a0fossilized\u00a0remains of stomach contents that have been\u00a0regurgitated\u00a0by an animal, such as an\u00a0owl pellet. They are\u00a0bromalite\u00a0trace fossils\u00a0and can be subdivided into\u00a0ichnotaxa. Regurgitaliths might provide useful information on the diet of the animal,\u00a0but are difficult to relate to any particular\u00a0species. [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;Prehistoric puke offers clues about \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/29\/word-of-the-day-1020\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41835,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41834\/revisions\/41835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}