copreservation

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ preservation.

Noun

copreservation (uncountable)

1. The joint preservation of two or more organisms.
   • 2020, Geoff Williams, The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests, page 129:

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