What's the difference between coprolite and fossil?
Coprolite
Definition:
(n.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six samples of human coprolites, some more than 2,000 years old, were analyzed for fecal steroid composition.
(2) The study of coprolites (desiccated feces) is recognized as a viable method for analyzing parasitism of prehistoric peoples.
(3) An important point in paleoparasitology is the correct diagnosis of the origin of coprolites found in archaeological sites.
(4) Helminth eggs and larvae were recovered after the coprolites were rehydrated, screened, and sedimented.
(5) To gain an understanding of helminth parasitism in prehistory on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 319 coprolites from 5 archaeological sites were analyzed.
(6) Despite this very lengthy period of storage, the fecal steroids of coprolites were remarkably similar to those of stool samples collected today.
(7) Individual bile acids were identified in the coprolite.
(8) Hunter-gatherers are represented by coprolites from Dust Devil Cave in south-eastern Utah.
(9) Between the agricultural sites, differences in patterns of excreta disposal, foraging behavior, and local ecology resulted in pronounced variations in both percentage of coprolites containing parasite remains and the number of parasite species represented.
(10) Examination of coprolites excavated from archaeological sites in the Americas demonstrates excellent preservation of helminth eggs and, in some cases, larvae.
(11) In this paper anteaters coprolites (Tamandua tetradactyla; Myrmecophaga tridactyla) with eggs of Gigantorhynchus echinodiscus (Archiancanthocephala; Gigantorynchidae) were identified.
(12) The bile acid composition of the coprolite was similar to that of the stool of modern man.
(13) Eggs of Enterobius vermicularis (human pinworm) were found in hum coprolites from Hopug and Danger Caves, western Utah.
(14) Data on intestinal parasite infections for South American Indians in prehistoric times as revealed by coprolite analysis are being used to support transoceanic migration routes from the Old World to the New World.
(15) In the six coprolites, an average 73% of the neutral steroids was digitonin-precipitable.
(16) The identification of human and animal coprolites, through the study of the shape, size, characteristics after rehydration, alimentary contents, and the presence of parasites, has proved to be accurate for human coprolites.
(17) Trichuris eggs were found in Kerodon rupestris (Rodentia, Caviidae) coprolites collected in archaeological layers dated from 30,000 yr BP (before present) to 8,450 yr BP.
(18) The study of prehistoric parasitism through analysis of coprolites, mummies, skeletons, and latrine soils is rapidly growing.
(19) Enterobius vermicularis eggs were found in human coprolites collected in the archaeological site of Caserones, Tarapaca Valley, Chile, dating from 400 BC to 800 AD.
(20) For non-human ones we compared coprolites with recent faeces of animals collected near the archaeological sites, following the methodology above mentioned.
Fossil
Definition:
(a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
(a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
(n.) A substance dug from the earth.
(n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
(n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(4) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(5) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(6) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(7) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(8) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(9) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(10) The first report, released last September in Stockholm , found humans were the "dominant cause" of climate change, and warned that much of the world's fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
(11) The methods described make possible the preparation of fossil samples for light nad transmission electron microscopy.
(12) This would force them to move rapidly away from fossil fuels in just a few years, something which they say is impossible to do given their limited finances and need to improve the lives of their people.
(13) That means eliminating fossil fuel subsidies as well.
(14) The branching pattern derived from the DNA comparisons is congruent with the fossil evidence and supported by comparative biochemical, chromosomal, and morphological studies.
(15) This method ensures the good preservation of spatial relations between bone elements essential for studies of fossil bones, which are sometimes very brittle.
(16) Driven by a desire to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and promote a secure supply of energy, the government of Albania has been very eager to encourage increased investment in renewable energy and in 2013 a law was passed to promote renewable energy .
(17) What the Chinese want is resources, especially fossil fuels.
(18) Each country can discover how much CO2 it emits by calculating the volume of fossil fuels it burns, usually through imports and the tax system.
(19) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(20) ('76), viz., that the fossil is "unique" among Hominoids, is essentially correct.