Late Cretaceous coprolites from western Canada

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Late Cretaceous coprolites from western Canada

  • Volume / Part: 21 / 2
  • Publication Date: May 1978
  • Page(s): 443 - 453
  • Authored By: Paul L. Broughton, Frank Simpson and Sidney H. Whitaker

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Abundant coprolites and possibly gut fills of holostean fishes are irregularly distributed throughout the kaolinitic clays and muds of the Whitemud Formation (late Cretaceous) of the Willows-Readlyn district, south-central Saskatchewan. The coprolites show a variety of internal and external structures including coiling, folding, and contraction marks of primary origin; secondary features, for example surface cracking, due to diagenetic replacement by siderite and pyrite, and subsequent alteration to iron oxides.

Palaeontology - Volume 21 Part 2 Pages 443-453



Palaeontology - Volume 21 Part 2 Pages 443-453

Citations

BROUGHTON, P. L., SIMPSON, F., WHITAKER, S. H. 1978. Late Cretaceous coprolites from western Canada. Palaeontology, 21, 2, 443–453.