Late Cretaceous coprolite from the Opole area (southern Poland) as evidence for a variable diet in shell-crushing shark Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii: Ptychodontidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Coprolites, i.e., fossilized faeces, are an important source of knowledge on the diet and food processing mechanisms in the fossil record.
Dawid Mazurek, Mateusz Antczak
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Pollen analyses of Pleistocene hyaena coprolites from Montenegro and Serbia [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2007 The results of pollen analyses of hyaena coprolites from the Early Pleistocene cave of Trlica in northern Montenegro and the Late Pleistocene cave of Baranica in southeast Serbia are described.
Argant Jacqueline, Dimitrijević Vesna
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Coprolite Multimodal Analysis: A Tool for Hyaenid Predator Identification [PDF]
AnimalsPaleontologists and archeologists reconstruct ancient ecosystems using data from carnivores’ food remains. Carnivores have evolved to employ two primary feeding strategies: consuming mostly meat and focusing on both meat and bones, and these strategies ...
Yannicke Dauphin, Jean-Philip Brugal
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The Technological Advance and Application of Coprolite Analysis
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Coprolites (mummified or fossilized feces), belonging to the group of ichnofossils, are fossilized remains of feces produced by animals. Various types of data from coprolites provide detailed evidence of the producer’s condition, like diet, intestinal ...
Hai Xiang, Xingbo Zhao
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Digesting an ancient ecosystem: coprolites from the Grippia bonebed, Lower Triassic, Svalbard [PDF]
PeerJThe marine Grippia bonebed from Vikinghøgda Formation, Lower Triassic, Svalbard is composed of scattered skeletal remains, teeth and coprolites. From this, five coprolite morphotypes have been identified and described.
Vanja Simonsen +4 more
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Fossil Biomarkers and Biosignatures Preserved in Coprolites Reveal Carnivorous Diets in the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Ecosystem [PDF]
Biology, 2022 The reconstruction of ancient trophic networks is pivotal to our understanding of ecosystem function and change through time. However, inferring dietary relationships in enigmatic ecosystems dominated by organisms without modern analogues, such as the ...
Madison Tripp +5 more
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as a rapid means for assessing the source of coprolites [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: The odor of rehydrated coprolites can be used as an informal means of fecal identification. To date, the analysis of volatiles emitted by coprolites from different sources has not been attempted, and the possibility of utilizing volatile organic
Wanyue Zhao +5 more
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The genome and diet of a 35,000‐year‐old Canis lupus specimen from the Paleolithic painted cave, Chauvet‐Pont d'Arc, France [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The Chauvet‐Pont‐d'Arc Cave (Ardèche, France) contains some of the oldest Paleolithic paintings recorded to date, as well as thousands of bones of the extinct cave bear, and some remains and footprints of other animals.
Jean‐Marc Elalouf +6 more
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Polyphasic Analysis of a Middle Ages Coprolite Microbiota, Belgium
PLoS ONE, 2014 Paleomicrobiological investigations of a 14(th)-century coprolite found inside a barrel in Namur, Belgium were done using microscopy, a culture-dependent approach and metagenomics. Results were confirmed by ad hoc PCR--sequencing.
Matthieu Le Bailly
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First molecular data on the human roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides species complex from the Bronze and Iron Age in Hallstatt, Austria [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Palaeoparasitological studies can provide valuable information on the emergence, distribution, and elimination of parasites during a particular time in the past.
Elisabeth Barsch +6 more
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