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FAECAL PELLET [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Marine Biology
  • Animal Biology
DEF

An organic excrement, mainly of invertebrates, occurring especially in modern marine deposits but also fossilized in some sedimentary rocks, usually of a simple ovoid form less than a millimeter in length, or more rarely rod-shaped with longitudinal or transverse sculpturing, devoid of internal structure, and smaller than a coprolite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Biologie marine
  • Biologie animale
CONT

Les déjections des organismes s'y distinguent par leur structure et par leur habitus : les boulettes fécales assemblées en cylindre de Callianassa, les crottes en chapelets des Holothuries, les tortillons des Vers [...]

Spanish

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