coprolite
IPA: kˈoʊprʌɫaɪt
noun
- A fossil consisting of petrified dung.
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Examples of "coprolite" in Sentences
- A king sized theropod coprolite.
- A coprolite is fossilized animal dung.
- The fossilized dino dung, called coprolite, made its way to
- As well as farming the village earned its income from coprolite digging.
- Let me add that the bones that it ate have also been found in T rex coprolite.
- Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal right, coprolite fossilized dinosaur feces.
- He explained to them that what they were holding was coprolite — fossilized dinosaur excrement.
- You can dig up a coprolite, put sunglasses, an ugly gray wig, and clothes on it, give it a job, even paint it.
- Kudos to the person who did the unicorn/fairy cake for not make the uni horn look like a piece of... coprolite.
- It's also used as a suffix, as in monolith (big block of stone) or in the form "-lite" (as in coprolite, fossilized dung).
- One said their own analysis of one of the coprolites was “difficult to reconcile with the DNA results identifying the coprolite as human.”
- I just looked at the link to the Arizona Daily Star that Steve had in his last post that had this great picture of Dr. Paul Martin holding a Pleistocene Ground Sloth - "coprolite" is the proper term - and thought it deserved a post of its own.
- It is either that the box is opened and the contents let loose on the world, like a cracker jack with the trots, or the box sucks in the world — a technoid machine — compacts all down like a Faraday compression of absolute skrunch no larger than a chicken bouillon cube if not an outright chip of a teeny weenie humanoid coprolite.