How To Use Coprolite In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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These tissues can theoretically be identified from very small samples, such as fragments in dinosaur coprolites.
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And I'm not a morphologist, but some of the coprolites looked pretty human.
Pre-Clovis Breakthrough
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Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa Aves, Dinornithiformes.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves,
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But the researchers who study coprolites, as fossil feces are known, say these dietary waste products can tell us much about dinosaurs and other ancient animals.
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Parasites have also been found in human coprolites and medieval cesspits.
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New experimental evidence on the faeces of modern fish show that faeces must be buried in less than 24 hours if they are to be preserved as coprolites in the fossil record.
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No organic detritus or sediment is present in the spaces between coprolites.
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In the ordinary so-called raw phosphates, such as bone-meal, bone-ash, coprolites, &c., the lime and phosphoric acid are combined in the form of what is known, in chemical phraseology, as _tribasic phosphate of lime_.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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Both blocks are free of plant remains, but the specimen from the fish bed lithology is preserved in proximity to a fish coprolite containing scales and spines of acanthodian fish.
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In the ordinary so-called raw phosphates, such as bone-meal, bone-ash, coprolites, &c., the lime and phosphoric acid are combined in the form of what is known, in chemical phraseology, as _tribasic phosphate of lime_.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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Researchers extracted DNA from this 30,000-year-old ground sloth coprolite - fossilized dung - in a Nevada desert cave last year.
