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plural coprolites
A fossil consisting of petrified dung. quotations examples
Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites – fossilized faeces – and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Analyses of the DNA fragments preserved in the moa and kakapo coprolites showed that moa and kakapo fed on fungi.
2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian