Coprolite, the Glossary
A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.[1]
Table of Contents
58 relations: Ancient Greek, Belemnitida, Bezoar, Biostratigraphy, Bromalite, Buckinghamshire, Bulletin of Geosciences, Calcium carbonate, Cambrian, Cambridgeshire, Carnivore, Coprolite Street, Dinosauromorpha, Falkenham, Fecalith, Feces, Felixstowe, Fertilizer, Fisons, Fossil, France, Gastrolith, Geologic time scale, Guano, Haute-Savoie, Herbivore, Ichthyosauria, Ipswich, Ipswich Docks, Isle of Ely, John Stevens Henslow, Jurassic, Kirton, Suffolk, Lias Group, Lloyds Bank coprolite, Lyme Regis, Mary Anning, Morphology (biology), Organic matter, Paleofeces, Paleontology, Petrifaction, Petrified wood, Phosphate, Regurgitalite, Silesaurus, Silicate, St John's College, Cambridge, Suffolk, Sulfuric acid, ... Expand index (8 more) »
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Belemnitida
Belemnitida (or belemnites) is an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that existed from the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous.
Bezoar
A bezoar is a mass often found trapped in the gastrointestinal system, though it can occur in other locations.
Biostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them.
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Bromalite
Bromalites are the fossilized remains of material sourced from the digestive system of organisms. Coprolite and Bromalite are trace fossils.
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Bulletin of Geosciences
The Bulletin of Geosciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research papers, review articles, and short contributions.
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Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.
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Carnivore
A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.
Coprolite Street
Coprolite Street is a street in Ipswich, Suffolk in the Waterfront area.
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Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauromorpha is a clade of avemetatarsalians (archosaurs closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives.
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Falkenham
Falkenham is a village and a civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk, near the village of Kirton and the towns of Ipswich and Felixstowe.
Fecalith
A fecalith is a stone made of feces. Coprolite and fecalith are feces.
Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine. Coprolite and Feces are animal waste products.
Felixstowe
Felixstowe is a port town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.
Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.
Fisons
Fisons plc was a British multinational pharmaceutical, scientific instruments and horticultural chemicals company headquartered in Ipswich, United Kingdom.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Gastrolith
A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stone, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract. Coprolite and gastrolith are trace fossils.
Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
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Guano
Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Coprolite and Guano are animal waste products.
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Ichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – and) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.
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Ipswich
Ipswich is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England.
Ipswich Docks
The Ipswich Docks, Ipswich wet dock and the wet dock, are a series of docks in Port of Ipswich located at a bend of the River Orwell which has been used for trade since at least the 8th Century.
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Isle of Ely
The Isle of Ely is a historic region around the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England.
John Stevens Henslow
John Stevens Henslow (6 February 1796 – 16 May 1861) was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Kirton, Suffolk
Kirton is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, situated off the A14 road, about from Felixstowe and around from Ipswich.
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Lias Group
The Lias Group or Lias is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) found in a large area of western Europe, including the British Isles, the North Sea, the Low Countries and the north of Germany.
Lloyds Bank coprolite
The Lloyds Bank coprolite is a large coprolite, or fossilised specimen of human faeces, recovered by the York Archaeological Trust while excavating the Viking settlement of Jórvík (present-day York) in northern England. Coprolite and Lloyds Bank coprolite are feces.
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Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.
Mary Anning
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.
Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Organic matter
Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter refers to the large source of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.
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Paleofeces
Paleofeces (or palaeofaeces in British English) are ancient human feces, often found as part of archaeological excavations or surveys. Coprolite and Paleofeces are feces.
Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Petrifaction
In geology, petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.
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Petrified wood
Petrified wood (from Ancient Greek πέτρα meaning 'rock' or 'stone'; literally 'wood turned into stone'), is the name given to a special type of fossilized wood, the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation.
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Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
Regurgitalite
Regurgitalites or sometimes Regurgitaliths are the fossilized remains of stomach contents that have been regurgitated by an animal, such as a owl pellet. Coprolite and Regurgitalite are trace fossils.
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Silesaurus
Silesaurus is a genus of silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic, of what is now Poland.
Silicate
A silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula, where.
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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Suffolk
Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.
Sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.
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Taphonomy
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record.
The World of Poo
The World of Poo is an illustrated children's book written by Terry Pratchett and illustrated by Peter Dennis.
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Trace fossil
A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (from ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms but not the preserved remains of the organism itself. Coprolite and trace fossil are trace fossils.
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Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
Trimley St Martin
Trimley St.
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William Buckland
William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster.
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Woburn Sands
Woburn Sands is a town that straddles the border between Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in England, and is part of the Milton Keynes urban area.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
See also
Animal waste products
- Animal latrine
- Coprolite
- Dry dung fuel
- Feces
- Guano
- Haslem v. Lockwood
- Human waste
- Hyraceum
- Liquid manure
- Manure
- Urine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite
Also known as Copperlite, Copralite, Coprolites, Coproliths, Corprolite, Dinosaur dung, Dinosaur excrement, Dinosaur feces, Dinosaur poop, Dinosaur shit, Fossil dung, Fossil excrement, Fossil shit, Fossilised dinosaur faeces.
, Taphonomy, The World of Poo, Trace fossil, Triassic, Trimley St Martin, William Buckland, Woburn Sands, World War I.