[mod. f. Gr. κόπρο-ς dung + λίθος stone: see also -ITE.] A stony roundish fossil, consisting (or supposed to consist) of the petrified excrement of an animal.
1829. Buckland, in Trans. Geol. Soc. (1835), III. 223. On the Discovery of Coprolites, or Fossil Fæces, in the Lias at Lyme Regis, and in other formations.
1870. Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 31. As a source of manure, coprolites have become important.
