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The reign of the dinosaurs lasted around 180 million years. Where, exactly, is 180 million years’ worth of dinosaur poo?
Ron Dippold
San Diego, California, US
The polite term for a fossilised poop is a coprolite.
We do find the occasional coprolite, and in many instances they are highly prized because if you find them next to a cache of fossils or eggs, you can tell what creatures like dinosaurs were eating, even by accident. Meat, plants, seeds, pollen – the things we find in coprolites are very important in deciphering what the environment looked like at that place at…
