what can a coprolite tell about an animal that left it?

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User: what can a coprolite tell about an animal that left it?

Weegy: Coprolites record the diet, feeding behavior, and habitat of prehistoric animals. Paleontologists can study the contents of a coprolite to see what one meal of an animal consisted of. [ For example, if the coprolite consists of partially digested plant material (leaves, seeds, bark, roots), the animal in question was probably an herbivore (plant-eater); if the coprolite contains bits of animal material (crushed bits of bones, sinew, claws), the animal in question was a carnivore (meat-eater). You can read more here ]
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User: what do the boundaries between geologic time intervals represent

Weegy: Usually, they represent periods between extinction events, where a particular type of lifeform was dominant.
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The boundaries between geologic time intervals represent shorter intervals in which visible changes took place on Earth. As temporal points of reference, it is worth memorizing the ages of the boundaries that separate the three eras of the Phanerozoic eon.

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Geologists created the geologic time scale so that Earth's history can be divided into manageable parts, to make their job easier. ... The boundaries between geologic time intervals represent shorter intervals in which visible changes took place on Earth.

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