coprolite

English

A coprolite

Etymology

From copro- +‎ -lite.

Noun

coprolite (plural coprolites)

1. A fossil consisting of petrified dung.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything:

     Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites – fossilized faeces – and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.

   • 2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

     Analyses of the DNA fragments preserved in the moa and kakapo coprolites showed that moa and kakapo fed on fungi.

Derived terms

• coprolitic

 

Translations

fossilized excrement

• Catalan: copròlit m
• Finnish: koproliitti
• French: coprolithe (fr) m
• Galician: coprólito (gl) m
• German: Koprolith (de) m, Kotstein m, Darmstein m, fossilierte Exkremente n pl
• Italian: coprolite m
• Polish: koprolit (pl) m
• Portuguese: coprólito (pt) m
• Spanish: coprolito (es) m
• Swedish: koprolit (sv) c
• Volapük: jiedotaston

See also

• coprolite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• elotropic