coprolite

/kop-ruh-lahyt/US // ˈkɒp rəˌlaɪt //UK // (ˈkɒprəˌlaɪt) //

桡足石,桡脚石,桡骨石,桡岩

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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.