[alexander_busek]

Coprolites aren't tremendously common but they can make up the majority of fossils found at some sites

Given that the average herbivore, over the course of its life, will need to eat about 2 lbs of food to gain 1 lb of weight - and that it will then excrete about 2 lbs of feces - I would have thought that, pound for pound, coprolites would be far more common than skeletal fossils (especially insofar as skeletons represent only a fraction of the animal's original body weight).

Must be because feces deteriorate to a greater extent.

Regards,

[SunkenCiv]

Yup.