How To Use coprolite In A Sentence
- I know: but years ago it got the name from one green vein in it, in which the "Coprolites," as you learnt to call them at Cambridge, are found; and that, and a little layer of blue clay, called gault, between the upper Madam How and Lady Why
- Inside the coprolites, pieces of T. rex bone were found, indicating that the dinosaur in question had cannibalized - either through attacking or scavenging - another T. rex.
- The subject dinosaurs tentatively identified as members of Maiasaura certainly had a peculiar diet: their coprolites were composed mostly of "fragmented conifer wood". Archive 2008-12-01
- Abstract: For the first time, at least for the Lisbon Miocene series, uncommon ichnologic evidence has been recognized, i.e. mammalian footprints in coprolites. No joke: someone stepped in it - The Panda's Thumb
- However, no coprolites from the Jurassic were found with recognizable plant tissue fragments, nor were there any with only partial reticulations, which correlates with the relatively poor preservation of the plants from this site.
- Thus, although wood, bones, and shells are the most common fossils, under certain conditions soft tissues, tracks and trails, and even coprolites (fossil feces) may be preserved as fossils.
- In addition to their possible connection with Brown's discovery, these T. rex fossils also were found to contain coprolites, fossilized remains of the dinosaur's last meal.
- These tissues can theoretically be identified from very small samples, such as fragments in dinosaur coprolites.
- And I'm not a morphologist, but some of the coprolites looked pretty human. Pre-Clovis Breakthrough
- Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa Aves, Dinornithiformes. Archive 2009-02-01
