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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Mr Frandsen's foray into coprolite hunting arose after he first saw one as a teenager in a rock and fossil shop in Utah, having already been fascinated by fossils as a child.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
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
Qvarnström and his colleagues uncovered a particular dime-size coprolite in a clay pit near Ozimek, Poland.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2021
The report highlights additional oddities: a dark, bulbous lump called a coprolite, otherwise known as fossilized dinosaur poop, and a tubular structure that was probably the body of some prehistoric worm.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2018
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 Sir Charles Lyell
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