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Definition of Coprolites
1. coprolite [n] - See also: coprolite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coprolites
Literary usage of Coprolites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"Water was required for the purpose of washing the coprolites free from the earth
and soil, in which they are embedded, and which adheres to them. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The name '• coprolites" was accordingly given to them by Buckland, who subsequently
expressed his belief that they might bo found useful in agriculture on ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"The background is composed of a mass of dry coprolites of cave rats, brown dusty
earth, and fragments of hard cave clay, "petre dirt. ..."
4. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group, Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"During the winter of 1984 a high concentration of similar coprolites were ...
This paper describes and compares the coprolites from the two localities. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"... Mr. Way observes, that he has found the coprolites from this district |»
contain from 52 to 64 per cent of bone-earth phosphate; and that Dr. Gilbert ..."
6. Proceedings of the International Conference on Plant Hardiness and by Daniel Hall (1912)
"... Manure- Preparation of Bone Meal and Steamed Bone Flour—Dissolved Bones and
Bone Compounds—The Discovery of Mineral Phosphates, coprolites, Phosphorite, ..."