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On the Elusive Trail of Fossil Dung
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2017
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Every once in a while, prospecting paleontologists happen upon distinctive fossil blobs with vaguely familiar shapes. They are usually sausage-shaped or roundish, and are made of material that is clearly not just bone or parent sediment These unusual formations are fossil feces—also known as coprolites. They were produced by fish, crocodiles, and mammals, and some were produced by dinosaurs.
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