#coprolite — Public Fediverse posts

Pipeline release! nf-core/coproid v2.0.1 - v2.0.1 - Greedy Gobbler!
Coprolite host Identification pipeline
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/coproid/releases/tag/2.0.1

#adna #ancientdna #coprolite #microbiome #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Google AI assures me* that "microslop coprolite" is a recent viral internet joke, and with your help, we can retcon that into reality

* with hallucitations that in no way support the claim

#Microslop #Coprolite

Pipeline release! nf-core/coproid v2.0.0 - DSL2 conversion!

Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/coproid/releases/tag/2.0.0

#adna #ancientdna #coprolite #microbiome #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Scatological humor is always a sure-fire way to get a child audience’s attention, which means #coprolites are always amusing fossils to bring up in paleo outreach. To that end, may I recommend “The Clues are in the Poo”, coauthored by Jane Kurtz and #coprolite queen Karen Chin!
It’s a light, entertaining book that not only educates about these amusing fossils, but also acts as an autobiographical account of Karen’s career as well.

https://dinodadreviews.com/2024/04/17/the-clues-are-in-the-poo/

The Cropwell Bishop plesiosaur on display at the #NottNatHist Museum @GeorgeTheGorilla

It's from the earliest Jurassic of Cropwell Bishop in Nottinghamshire. I'm working on it with colleagues, it's probably a new species.

I put a fossil fish by its head and some coprolites by its bum to tell a simple story: food goes in, poo goes out!

#plesiosaurs #plesiosaur #FossilFriday #fossils #paleontology #WollatonHall #coprolite

Late #Cretaceous #coprolite from the Opole area (southern Poland) as evidence for a variable diet in shell-crushing #shark Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii: Ptychodontidae)

https://peerj.com/articles/16598/ via @PeerJ

#paleobiology #Palaeontology #fossilfriday

Fossilized feces found to be infested with #parasites from more than 200 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossilized-feces-infested-parasites-million.html

First discovery of #parasite eggs in a vertebrate #coprolite of the Late #Triassic in Thailand https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287891

"The coprolite is cylindrical in shape and more than 7cm long. Based on its shape and contents, the researchers suggest it was likely produced by some species of #phytosaur, #crocodile-like #predators which are also known from this #fossil locality."

I sawed this septarian concretion in half, to reveal a lovely pale brown #coprolite in the centre. But weirdly, the two sawn halves seem to have faces, looking at each other, with different expressions. Some kind of dialogue maybe? From the Orchard Beds in #RoukenGlenPark #Geology One for @palaeokatie !