How to Use coprolite in a Sentence

coprolite

noun

• The same fossil bed yielded ancient sponges, crinoids, and ammonite coprolites and beaks.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 May 2024
• Frandsen kept tabs on the research regarding coprolites, while learning how to find them in the field.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
• In one coprolite the researchers found the remains of three beetle species, including two wing cases and a part of a leg.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
• These factors determine whether the coprolite is worth a few dollars or a few thousand dollars.
  — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
• Among the hands-on exhibitions are rocky casts of coprolite, otherwise known as dino dung.
  — Mark Washburn, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
• The coprolites contained bits of fish, insects, plants and other animals.
  — Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
• The study looked at the coprolites from two pre-Columbian cultures called the Huecoid and Saladoid.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• The researchers’ coprolite provides a valuable snapshot of what Silesaurus ate, and how.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2021
• Their goal was to see inside the coprolite, a rare soft material preserved by fossilization.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• One particular coprolite caught the eye of researchers in China.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 6 June 2022
• For the herbivores, however, especially in long-neck sauropods, their coprolites contained lots of tree ferns and charcoal.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• Roundworms remain a major health concern for humans, and the little coprolite revealed that the nematode has a long history.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• See and touch dinosaur coprolite (poop) in the Hall of Paleontology.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• Preserved inside were several of the first ever fully intact beetles discovered in a coprolite.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2021
• Qvarnström and his colleagues uncovered a particular dime-size coprolite in a clay pit near Ozimek, Poland.
  — Tess Joosse, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
• That the coprolite exists after approximately 33 million years is one thing.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 6 June 2022
• The cylinder coprolite morphotype, on the other hand, was among the most common at Las Hoyas, and was typically chockfull of bony bits.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2018
• Children in rural Africa commonly have these microbes in abundance as well, suggesting that the Mexican coprolite may have been that of a young child.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
• Frandsen initially used his coprolite collection to launch an online resource center in 2014.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• For example, the team found that the contents of coprolites from the first large herbivorous dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs, contained large quantities of tree ferns but also many other types of plants and charcoal.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
• Since 2015, Frandsen has held the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of coprolites.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Exhibits feature detailed explanations of how coprolites are formed, discovered and analyzed.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
• Scientists have also examined Neanderthal coprolites for clues to the complex diets of these human relatives.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2017
• Analysis of the Conejo Shelter coprolite revealed pollen that indicated the person had consumed succulents like yucca flowers.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• Their study, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, documents a new method to examine the treasures hidden within the coprolite without destroying the samples.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
• The coprolites contained genetic material from mushrooms that are colorful—often an indicator of having evolved to attract the attention of grazing animals—and that rely on animals to eat them and disperse their spores.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
• Exactly what species produced the coprolites is unknown, but after analyzing a third specimen of the same composition found nearby the scientists determined that it had been produced by a carnivorous vertebrate other than a shark.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2010
• Archaeologists and biologists have studied parasite eggs from human and animal coprolites, from ancient latrines, in the soil of archaeological graves, and even from mummified peoples’ digestive tracts.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2019