जीवाश्म विसर्जन; डूंग

Noun:

खुदी हुई खाद, खुदी हुई गोबर,

coprolites's Usage Examples:

in thickness containing "coprolites"; these consist of phosphatized wood, bones, casts of shells, and shapeless lumps.

In the vicinity of Farnham it contains a bed of "coprolites" of considerable extent and 2 to 15 ft.

The Cambridgeshire coprolites are either amorphous or finger-shaped; the coprolites from the Greensand are of a black or dark-brown colour; while those from the Gault are greenish-white on the surface, brownish-black internally.

The Cambridgeshire coprolites are believed to be derived from deposits of Gault age; they are obtained by washing from a stratum about a foot thick, resting on the Gault, at the base of the Chalk Marl, and probably homotaxeous with the Chloritic Marl.

Henslow for coprolites; they were afterwards termed by Buckland "pseudo-coprolites."

The term coprolites has been made to include all kinds of phosphatic nodules employed as manures, such, for example, as those obtained from the Coralline and the Red Crag of Suffolk.

The bone-bed of Axmouth in Devonshire and Westbury and Aust in Gloucestershire, in the Penarth or Rhaetic series of strata, contains the scales, teeth and bones of saurians and fishes, together with abundance of coprolites; but neither there nor at Lyme Regis is there a sufficient quantity of phosphatic material to render the working of it for agricultural purposes remunerative.

Jager has described coprolites from the alum-slate of Gaildorf in Wurttemberg; the fish-coprolites of Burdiehouse and of Newcastle-under-Lyme are of Carboniferous age.

Coprolites have been found at Lyme Regis, enclosed by the ribs of ichthyosauri, and in the remains of several species of fish; also in the abdominal cavities of a species of fossil fish, Macropoma Mantelli, from the chalk of Lewes.

These are distinguishable from the grey Chalk coprolites by their brownish ferruginous colour and smooth appearance.

coprolites's Meaning':

fossil excrement; petrified dung

Synonyms:

muck, dung, droppings,

Antonyms:

clean,