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SUBMITTER: Fiorelli LE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3842779 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fiorelli Lucas E LE Ezcurra Martín D MD Hechenleitner E Martín EM Argañaraz Eloisa E Taborda Jeremías R A JR Trotteyn M Jimena MJ von Baczko M Belén MB Desojo Julia B JB
Scientific reports 20131128
Defecation in communal latrines is a common behaviour of extant mammals widely distributed among megaherbivores. This behaviour has key social functions with important biological and ecological implications. Herbivore communal latrines are only documented among mammals and their fossil record is exceptionally restricted to the late Cenozoic. Here we report the discovery of several massive coprolite associations in the Middle-Late Triassic of the Chañares Formation, Argentina, which represent fos ...[more]