Copreservation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The joint preservation of two or more organisms. uncountable

    "However, Phthiraptera are almost absent from the fossil record, a possible peculiarity of the difficulty of host-parasite copreservation, […]"

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"However, Phthiraptera are almost absent from the fossil record, a possible peculiarity of the difficulty of host-parasite copreservation, […]"

Etymology

From co- + preservation.

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