Termite coprolites (Insecta: Isoptera) from the Cretaceous of western France: A palaeoecological insight

This paper presents fossil faecal pellets – also named coprolites or frass – attributed to termites, which were found in amber and lignitic clay from the Wealden (Hauterivian-Barremian?), Late Albian and Early Cenomanian of south-western France. These coprolites have a characteristic subcylindrical shape and hexagonal transverse section and are assignable to Microcarpolithes hexagonalis Vangerow. The termite families that possibly produced these...