What is on the Menu? 

Here is a new word for you - pabulite! Defines as a fossilized meal which never entered the digestive tract. It is different from regurgitalites - I am sure you can work out what that is!

All this comes from an ARTICLE recommended to me by a correspondent. The article is based on an ACADEMIC PAPER in a Swiss Journal.

The source of all these neologisms is a fossil extracted from the Posidonia Shale, part of the Toarcian (early Jurassic) of Germany. It consists of a belemnite which has captured a decapod crustacean. And there is damage to the belemnite suggesting it was predated by some vertebrate. The Early Jurassic shark Hybodus hauffianus is suggested. The shark seems to have dropped its prey before ingesting it - and so we get a pabulite!

The academic paper is very interesting - lots to get your teeth into.