| 41. | Mineral analysis can reveal the preservational environment of a coprolite as well as what manner of manure was preserved.
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| 42. | Radiocarbon dating of coprolites indicate they are from 12, 750 to 14, 290 years before the present.
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| 43. | In 2012, Jesper Mil�n and colleagues described two coprolites ( fossilised faeces ) containing fish scales and bones.
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| 44. | Coprolites ( fossilized droppings ) of some Late Cretaceous hadrosaurs show that the animals sometimes deliberately ate rotting wood.
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| 45. | Paleontologists considered the information coprolites might provide far too dubious to warrant the time it would take to decipher it.
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| 46. | Chin says she's found that coprolites offer a cornucopia of intestinal itinerants in addition to wood and shellfish.
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| 47. | He coined the name coprolite for them; the name came to be the general name for all fossilised faeces.
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| 48. | Coprolites have been recorded in deposits ranging in age from the Cambrian period to recent times and are found worldwide.
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| 49. | More recently, the discovery of hair remnants in Permian coprolites possibly vindicates the status of dicynodonts as endothermic animals.
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| 50. | Coprolites are phosphate-rich fossils found below the surface in deep by rarely more than wide Gault clay beds.
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