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noun
- a stony mass consisting of fossilized fecal matter of animals.
noun
- any of various rounded stony nodules thought to be the fossilized faeces of Palaeozic-Cenozoic vertebrates
fossil dung, 1829, from copro- + -lite, from French, for -lithe, from Greek lithos “stone” (see litho-).
- Fossilized excrement. Analysis of the fossilized animal and plant remains within coprolites provides important information about the diet and environment of ancient biota.