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Diet

Recent propagation phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography, or (PPC-SRµCT), which is a 3d imagining of tissue related to an organisms function, of a sample of Bohemolichas incola show large concentrations of undigestible fragments of Conchoprimitia osekensis, a small-shelled species now extinct, in the B. incola sample digestive tract.

The fragments are indicative of durophagous predation (shell crushing). Durophagous predation focuses on the soft flesh and tissues of organisms that lie under shells and exoskeletons, which are then crushed to eventually be reached. As the composition of the shells found were not taxonomically significant, rather based on physical properties regarding the shell strength and size, food selection for B. incola was determined by opportunities classifying feeding habits to be similar to scavengers. The remains of shells address another digestive aspect of B. incola, in the enzymatic ways in which these indigestible shells were siphoned out of little nutrition leaving only fragments behind. These remnants build on the concept of early Trilobites potentially having glands that secrete enzymes that aid in the digestive process.

Further analysis of the PPC-SRµCT shows the calcareous shells that were left behind in the fecal pellets of the sample. The presence of such calcareous shells indicates a neutral stomach environment and lining, as acidic environments result in the erosion of such ions, which would be deposited into the lining of the sample. With few other references regarding similar digestive tracts, it is not possible to determine the makeup of similar sample species' digestive tracts. The only reference currently being the analysis of recent decapods such as the horseshoe crabs which demonstrate similarly alkali gut microbiomes. Upon death other scavengers tended to avoid the digestive area, as the alkali enzymes created in the microbiome would appear dangerous for a short period of time.