coprocoenosis
/kɑ.pɹʊˈsiːnəʊsəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection of bones that are found together in a fossilized scat, having previously existed as part of animals within a paleocommunity.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Small mammal fossil accumulations are generally the result of both coprocoenosis and post-depositional processes."