#coprolites — Public Fediverse posts

Nearly all #coprolites contained
alimentary inclusions: one contained the impression of an insect wing. Particularly abundant were fish scales 🐟, teeth 🦈, and bone fragments 🦴, revealing a predominantly carnivorous/piscivorous diet for most producers. The scales are mostly ganoid, typical of palaeonisciform fishes, a dominant group in the Permian.

Fossilized poop (#coprolites) 💩 are a treasure trove of paleoecological clues! In our new study led by Larissa Catafesta, we analyzed 97 coprolites from the Rio do Rasto Formation (middle/upper Permian, Paraná Basin, southern Brazil)—a formation rich in coprolites but rarely studied in detail.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2025.201060

#OpenAccess Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18978067

#Paleontology #Permian #Fossils

This Fossil Friday is a set of fossilized droppings (coprolites)!

These were collected from the Late Cretaceous rocks of Saskatchewan by Karen Weinhold. Coprolites can be recognized by their distinctive shape and smell - the phosphorus in the original droppings leads to different minerals in the resulting fossil!

This is APS 1990-004, and the scale bar is 1cm.

Image credit: Howard Allen

#paleontology #fossils #dinosaur #fossilfriday #coprolites

@SciMag @news-from-science-SciMag
Article features - and I quote - 'the "coprolite of destiny"'. YES.

#coprolites

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/

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Coprolites

Mohamed Bendella, Adrian Hunt, Madani Benyoucef & Imad Bouchemla (2023)
The first Mesozoic vertebrate coprolites from Algeria
Ichnos (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2023.2187387
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2023.2187387

On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me … a surprisingly accurate reconstruction of a royal diet from the age of lords and ladies.

Because everyone poops, archaeological sleuths can use fossilized feces, or #coprolites, or the remnants of #latrines to figure out what their users ate. As I describe in Chapter 4 of Flush, everything from plant seeds to parasite eggs can help scientists reconstruct diets, hygiene & even trading routes—from leaping lords to less excitable commoners.

@PaleoParaDive #introduction Weronika Łaska is in charge of uncovering information enclosed inside ancient #coprolites by means of #ComputedTomography, its analysis and #3D #visualization. She is interested in
#invertebrate #ichnology, #neoichnology and #evolution of #animalbehavior. Lately diving into #DeepLearning
& #paleontology. During the free time: #powerlifter

Hi! #Introduction We are the @PaleoParaDive team @ the Institute of #EvolutionaryBiology at the Faculty of #Biology at the University of #Warsaw. We study the impact of #extinction and #climate warming on #parasite-host interactions and #disease in deep time. Our favorite tools for this purpose: #fossils #invertebrate #paleopathology #parasitology #vertebrate #coprolites #paleobiology #paleontology #modelling #phylogenetics

For this purpose, our #PARADIVE team focus on sampling parasitic-induced 🦪 pathologies in #marine environments to 🪱 #eggs in terrestrial 🦖 #vertebrate #coprolites and #modelling those in relationship with #host #diversity around major #extinction events or #environmental changes.

Analysis of prehistoric feces shows Stonehenge people had parasites - Enlarge / The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, UK. A la... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855356 #archaeology #coprolites #paleofeces #stonehenge #science