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coprocoenoses

coprocoenoses is the plural of coprocoenosis.

Meaning of coprocoenosis

Noun

coprocoenosis (plural coprocoenoses)

  1. A collection of bones that are found together in a fossilized scat, having previously existed as part of animals within a paleocommunity.
    • Such fossil specimens passed into or through the digestive tracts of carnivores before being left as scat that was later reworked into sedimentary rocks. The term "coprocoenosis" is proposed for such an assemblage.1974, J. S. Mellett, Scatological origin of microvertebrate fossil accumulations

Questions about coprocoenoses

What is coprocoenoses the plural of?
Coprocoenoses is the plural of coprocoenosis.

Words near coprocoenoses in the dictionary

  1. coprocesses
  2. coprocessing
  3. coprocessor
  4. coprocessors
  5. coprocholic acid
  6. coprocoenoses
  7. coprocoenosis
  8. coproculture
  9. coprocultures
  10. coprodaea
  11. coprodaeal

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