Mary's main claim to fame was her discovery of the largest coprolite to ever be discovered.
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Coprolite
//ˈkɒprəˌlaɪt//
Synonyms for "coprolite" (14 found)
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Translations
14 translations across 11 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- copròlit noun (fossilized excrement)
Finnish
1 entries- koproliitti noun (fossilized excrement)
French
1 entries- coprolithe noun (fossilized excrement)
Galician
1 entries- coprólito noun (fossilized excrement)
German
4 entries- Darmstein noun (fossilized excrement)
- Koprolith noun (fossilized excrement)
- Kotstein noun (fossilized excrement)
- fossilierte Exkremente noun (fossilized excrement)
Italian
1 entries- coprolite noun (fossilized excrement)
Polish
1 entries- koprolit noun (fossilized excrement)
Portuguese
1 entries- coprólito noun (fossilized excrement)
Spanish
1 entries- coprolito noun (fossilized excrement)
Swedish
1 entries- koprolit noun (fossilized excrement)
Volapük
1 entries- jiedotaston noun (fossilized excrement)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
This coprolite (the technical term for palaeo-poo) has yielded much to modern scrutiny. First, it is completely devoid of plant matter, including the corn and other plants that the Anasazi Pueblo people of the region lived on.
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Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites – fossilized faeces – and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.
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Analyses of the DNA fragments preserved in the moa and kakapo coprolites showed that moa and kakapo fed on fungi.
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