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Re: paleonet Fossil Pellets from Ship



Hi,

Sorry about the generalisation...Yes we mean mean rodent, lagomorph, deer  
droppings!!!

Thank you for your patiente



Respectfully,

Xavier Panades I Blas
55, Marksbury Road
Bedminster
Bristol BS3 5JY
England (EC)

http://www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~xp1pls/
















From: Judith Harris <harrisj@valornet.com>
Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet Fossil Pellets from Ship
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:38:05 -0600

Hi Xavier,

What do you mean by "pellets"? Do you mean rodent, lagomorph, deer  
droppings, i.e. small coprolites? Or something completely different.  Birds 
have pellets which come from their crop. There are many many of  those in 
the fossil record but then birds aren't mammals.

judith harris
emerita professor
university of colorado museum
p.o. box 278
chama, nm  87520
harrisj@valornet.com


On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Xavier Panades I Blas wrote:

>Hi everybody,
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>Is there any account of fossil mammal pellets?
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>Respectfully,
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>Xavier Panades I Blas
>55, Marksbury Road
>Bedminster
>Bristol BS3 5JY
>England (EC)
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>http://www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~xp1pls/
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>From: "Xavier Panades I Blas" <cogombra@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
>To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
>Subject: paleonet Fossil Pellets from Ship
>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:35:45 +0000
>
>Hi everybody,
>
>Is there any account of fossil pellets?
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