A report on Feces and William Buckland

Skatole is the principal compound responsible for the unpleasant smell of feces.
Buckland in 1833
The molecule hydrogen sulfide contributes to the smell of feces.
Bust of Buckland in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
A pet waste station in Tucker, Georgia
William Conybeare drew this cartoon of Buckland poking his head into a prehistoric hyaena den in 1822 to celebrate Buckland's ground breaking analysis of the fossils found in Kirkdale Cave.
Cyclosia papilionaris consuming bird droppings
Buckland family silhouette
Horse feces
Duria Antiquior – A more Ancient Dorset, 1830 watercolour by Henry De la Beche, based on Buckland's account of Mary Anning's discoveries
Sign ordering owners to clean up after pets, Houston, Texas, 2011
Painting by Richard Ansdell
Bear scat
Bear scat showing consumption of bin bags
The cassowary disperses plant seeds via its feces
Earthworm feces aids in provision of minerals and plant nutrients in an accessible form
Feces from different seabirds.

He pioneered the use of fossilised faeces in reconstructing ecosystems, coining the term coprolites.

- William Buckland

They were first described by William Buckland in 1829.

- Feces
Skatole is the principal compound responsible for the unpleasant smell of feces.

2 related topics with Alpha

Overall
A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, USA. Photo courtesy of the Poozeum

Coprolite

1 links

A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, USA. Photo courtesy of the Poozeum
A large Miocene coprolite from South Carolina, USA.
A large coprolite (fossilized feces) from South Carolina, USA.
Age: White River Oligocene; Location: Northwest Nebraska; Dimensions: Varies (25 mm X 20 mm); Weight: 8-10 g; Features: Many small inclusions and one has a complete toe bone from a small deer called a leptomeryx.
A Miocene pseudocoprolite from Washington state. Commonly mistaken for coprolites because of their appearance and shape; they are actually of inorganic origin. Scale in mm. See Spencer (1993).

A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.

They were first described by William Buckland in 1829.

Permineralized bryozoan from the Devonian of Wisconsin.

Fossil

1 links

Any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

Any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

Permineralized bryozoan from the Devonian of Wisconsin.
External mold of a bivalve from the Logan Formation, Lower Carboniferous, Ohio
Silicified (replaced with silica) fossils from the Road Canyon Formation (Middle Permian of Texas)
Recrystallized scleractinian coral (aragonite to calcite) from the Jurassic of southern Israel
The star-shaped holes (Catellocaula vallata) in this Upper Ordovician bryozoan represent a soft-bodied organism preserved by bioimmuration in the bryozoan skeleton.
Examples of index fossils
Microfossils about 1 mm
The wasp Leptofoenus pittfieldae trapped in Dominican amber, from 20 to 16 million years ago. It is known only from this specimen.
Eroded Jurassic plesiosaur vertebral centrum found in the Lower Cretaceous Faringdon Sponge Gravels in Faringdon, England. An example of a remanié fossil.
A subfossil dodo skeleton
Lower Proterozoic stromatolites from Bolivia, South America
An example of a pseudofossil: Manganese dendrites on a limestone bedding plane from Solnhofen, Germany; scale in mm
Ceratopsian skulls are common in the Dzungarian Gate mountain pass in Asia, an area once famous for gold mines, as well as its endlessly cold winds. This has been attributed to legends of both gryphons and the land of Hyperborea
Fossil shells from the cretaceous era sea urchin, Micraster, were used in medieval times as both shepherd's crowns to protect houses, and as painted fairy loaves by bakers to bring luck to their bread-making.
Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus from the 1834 Czech edition of Cuvier's Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe
Phacopid trilobite Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata. The genus is named after Niles Eldredge.
Crinoid columnals (Isocrinus nicoleti) from the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation at Mount Carmel Junction, Utah
Carbonized fossil of a possible leech from the Silurian Waukesha Biota of Wisconsin.
Partially coalified axis (branch) of a lycopod from the Devonian of Wisconsin.
Cambrian trace fossils including Rusophycus, made by a trilobite
A coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in southwestern Saskatchewan
Densely packed, subaerial or nearshore trackways (Climactichnites wilsoni) made by a putative, slug-like mollusk on a Cambrian tidal flat
thumb|Marine fossils found high in the Himalayas. Collection of the Abbot of Dhankar Gompa, HP, India
Three small ammonite fossils, each approximately 1.5 cm across
Eocene fossil fish Priscacara liops from the Green River Formation of Wyoming
A permineralized trilobite, Asaphus kowalewskii
Megalodon and Carcharodontosaurus teeth. The latter was found in the Sahara Desert.
Fossil shrimp (Cretaceous)
Petrified wood in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Petrified cone of Araucaria mirabilis from Patagonia, Argentina dating from the Jurassic Period (approx. 210 Ma)
A fossil gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus. A serpulid worm is attached.
Silurian Orthoceras fossil
Eocene fossil flower from Florissant, Colorado
Micraster echinoid fossil from Englandf
Productid brachiopod ventral valve; Roadian, Guadalupian (Middle Permian); Glass Mountains, Texas.
Agatized coral from the Hawthorn Group (Oligocene–Miocene), Florida. An example of preservation by replacement.
Fossils from beaches of the Baltic Sea island of Gotland, placed on paper with 7 mm (0.28 inch) squares
Dinosaur footprints from Torotoro National Park in Bolivia.

Fossils may also consist of the marks left behind by the organism while it was alive, such as animal tracks or feces (coprolites).

They were first described by William Buckland in 1829.