Coperlits and the Ancient Environment

We can also just tell, you know, if something is eaten, it's contemporary of the dinosaur. So we can learn who was living with the dinosaurs, whether or not they were eaten. We're still finding more and more about what copelites can tell us but i'd say of the fourth major category is when we study some coperlits, we can learn how it was preserved. And a good example that i have worked on, is when we studied a teronosor coperlite, not terex, but a smaller, slightly smaller, and older relative,. probably ten million years older than t rex.

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