How to Use coprolite in a Sentence

coprolite

noun
  • The same fossil bed yielded ancient sponges, crinoids, and ammonite coprolites and beaks.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2024-05-18
  • The museum is home to the world’s largest collection of coprolites, or bits of fossilized dung.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-10-22
  • The scientists even spotted at least one clump of what appears to be a coprolite, or fossilized feces.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 2018-01-31
  • In one coprolite the researchers found the remains of three beetle species, including two wing cases and a part of a leg.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2017-06-09
  • These factors determine whether the coprolite is worth a few dollars or a few thousand dollars.
    — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 2024-06-06
  • Among the hands-on exhibitions are rocky casts of coprolite, otherwise known as dino dung.
    — Mark Washburn, charlotteobserver, 2018-05-25
  • The coprolites contained bits of fish, insects, plants and other animals.
    — Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 2024-11-30
  • The study looked at the coprolites from two pre-Columbian cultures called the Huecoid and Saladoid.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2023-10-11
  • Drumheller-Horton adds that the site also preserved hundreds of coprolites, or fossilized feces.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 2019-06-10
  • One particular coprolite caught the eye of researchers in China.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 2022-06-06
  • See and touch dinosaur coprolite (poop) in the Hall of Paleontology.
    — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 2022-09-16
  • Qvarnström and his colleagues uncovered a particular dime-size coprolite in a clay pit near Ozimek, Poland.
    — Tess Joosse, Scientific American, 2021-06-30
  • The cylinder coprolite morphotype, on the other hand, was among the most common at Las Hoyas, and was typically chockfull of bony bits.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2018-05-23
  • For example, the team found that the contents of coprolites from the first large herbivorous dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs, contained large quantities of tree ferns but also many other types of plants and charcoal.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 2024-11-27
  • Exactly what species produced the coprolites is unknown, but after analyzing a third specimen of the same composition found nearby the scientists determined that it had been produced by a carnivorous vertebrate other than a shark.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 2010-08-16

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