Scavenging beetle found along with giant sloth fossil

Adam Khor

These news (also in Spanish, sorry) come from Argentina; haven´t found an English article on it.

I translate part of it:

"The peculiar find was made accidentally when a team led by museologist Daniel Boh in november 2002 were extracting the fossil remains of a skull and jaw believed to come from a great giant sloth named Scelidotherium (...) A piece of sediment that was separated from the mega-mammal's remains was broken in half and in both halves were found very detailed impressions of the beetle's morphology. "Only a cast of the original structure was preserved since the fossil-bearing sediments of the Pampean region do not preserve soft tissues" said Daniel Boh (...) The chances of finding this sort of remains are very low" (...) The beetle lived about 10.000 years ago but still has living relatives nowadays. The material was identified as belonging to family Tenebrionidae and genus Scotobius (...) They feed on decomposing organic matter.
Possibly the beetle was feeding on the organic remains left after the decomposition of the found skull, such as skin and sinews, and for reason unknown it died along with its food source"