Antennae, the gastric mill, the filtering net at the thoracopods and the rakes at the tips of the thoracopods . ]]
2.
This has been assumed on the basis of the presence of reduced dentition and a gastric mill in " Nqwebasaurus ."
3.
While crocodiles and some other animals may use gastroliths for ballast today, it appears likely that elasmosaurs used them as a gastric mill.
4.
The foregut begins at the mouth, passes through the oesophagus, and opens into a sac which contains the grinding apparatus of the gastric mill.
5.
The alimentary canal consists of a straight tube that often has a gizzard-like " gastric mill " for grinding food and a pair of digestive glands that absorb food; this structure goes in a spiral format.
6.
Representing about 0.3 % of total body weight, they were voluminous enough to function as a gastric mill, a function sometimes denied for sauropod gastroliths because of their insufficient relative mass, being an order of magnitude lower.
7.
Once inside the crab's stomach, food is further digested by the " gastric mill ", a collection of tooth-like structures . " M . magister " prefers to eat clams, other crustaceans and small fish, but is also an effective scavenger.
परिभाषा
thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food पर्याय: gizzard, ventriculus,