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A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, US A large Miocene coprolite from South Carolina, US Coprolites found on the Blahnita riverbed, Romania, showing a seed inclusion (right specimen) A large coprolite from South Carolina, US Age: White River Oligocene; Location: Northwest Nebraska; Dimensions: Varies (25 mm × 20 mm); Weight: 8-10 g; Features ...
Paleontologists at the University of Uppsala in Sweden studied more than 500 pieces of fossilized dinosaur poop to find out how dinosaurs evolved.
Revelations from ancient poop. In some cases, it was possible to make a visual assessment of what type of dinosaur was responsible for a bromalite based on a fossil’s size and shape — a spiral ...
Poozeum founder George Frandsen began collecting coprolites as an 18-year-old, purchasing his first piece of fossilized feces from a rock and fossil store in Moab, Utah. [1] [2] He expanded his collection over the years, and by 2016 it included 1,277 specimens and was recognized as the largest collection of its kind in the world, earning it a Guinness World Record. [3]
Frandsen has long been fascinated by dinosaurs and fossils, and that interest extended to fossilized poop when he first saw one aged 18 on a visit to a rock and fossil shop in Utah.
NEW YORK (AP) — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. Researchers aren't sure whether dinosaurs' rise over the course of 30 million years happened because of luck, skill, climate or some combination.
1 We cannot rename the file without braking links, but this coprolite cannot be from a Nonavian dinosaur because it is from the Miocene. Toggle the table of contents File talk : A large coprolite (fossilized feces or dinosaur poop) from South Carolina, USA..jpg
Poozeum's president and curator, George Frandsen, bought his first chunk of fossilized feces from a shop in Moab, Utah, when he was 18, he said. He already loved dinosaurs and fossils but had ...