What is it about?
A fossil classified as coprolite is investigated by two classic structural characterization techniques. Mineralogical composition went characterized turning possible from consideration as raw material, medium of the fossil formation and time of formation of fossil, to hypothesize the major source of food of animal.
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Why is it important?
In goal, the set of information and experimental procedure can be used to derive feeding habit or punctual feeding habit of a paleo-specimen. Also, significant data can be derived at initial and fossilization medium.
Perspectives
The experimental approach developed seems robust. In this sense, functional information at about specimen and ambient can be retrieved meaning that gradual picture of paleo world can be gradually reached.
Professor Marcos Augusto Lima Nobre
Sao Paulo State University
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This page is a summary of: Estudo de coprólito da bacia sedimentar do Araripe por meios de espectroscopia FT-IR e difração de Raios-X, Química Nova, January 2007, FapUNIFESP (SciELO),
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-40422007000800029.
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