A king-sized theropod coprolite
1998/06/01 by Karen Chin, Timothy T. Tokaryk, Gregory M. Erickson +1 · 1 voice · 205 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Carnivore #Context (archaeology) #Cretaceous #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Herbivore #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Predation #Taxon #Theropoda #Trophic level #Zoology
paper · doi:10.1038/31461
published in Nature 393(6686), 680-682 (Nature Portfolio)
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