coprocoenosis

plural coprocoenoses

1. A collection of bones that are found together in a fossilized scat, having previously existed as part of animals within a paleocommunity.

   Small mammal fossil accumulations are generally the result of both coprocoenosis and post-depositional processes.

   2016, Loïc Lebreton, Multi-taxa referential of a modern Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) aerie

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   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.

   1974, J. S. Mellett, Scatological origin of microvertebrate fossil accumulations