coprolite / ˈkɒp rəˌlaɪt /
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coprolite 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a stony mass consisting of fossilized fecal matter of animals.
更多coprolite例句
- For example, coprolites have been used to show that some plant-eating dinosaurs also dined on crustaceans.
- Feces, especially from carnivores, can readily form into coprolites.
- Despite this preservation power, coprolites can be overshadowed by amber, a translucent tree resin, when it comes to fossils.
- Among those fossils were coprolites — fossil poop — filled with partially digested bone shards.
- An earlier study, published in 2014, sifted through the tiny coprolites to look for traces of Neanderthal diets.
- In many places they have been worked, under the name of “coprolite-beds,” as sources of artificial manures.
- An ichthyo-coprolite from Tenby was found to contain 15.4% of phosphoric anhydride.