coprolite
Americannoun
noun
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Vocabulary lists containing coprolite
Paleontology - High School
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Paleontology - Middle School
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They selected a coprolite fragment nearly 2 centimeters long that, based on its broken ends, suggested it was part of a much larger piece that might be more likely to contain things inside it.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2021
The scientists even spotted at least one clump of what appears to be a coprolite, or fossilized feces.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2018
Some herbivorous dinosaurs ate small animals, and I wouldn’t be shocked if someone finds a coprolite from a primarily carnivorous dinosaur with partially-digested plant material inside.
From Scientific American • Oct. 21, 2017
The largest coprolite ever found was 17 inches long and almost seven inches wide.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2013
The so-called coprolite bed, found near Farnham, in Surrey, and near Cambridge, contains nodules of phosphate of lime in such abundance as to be largely worked for the manufacture of artificial manure.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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