Talk:Superphosphate

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A fact from Superphosphate appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that John Bennet Lawes started producing superphosphate, the first chemical manure produced in the world, from fossilised dinosaur dung on an industrial scale?

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Fossilised dung, but probably not from dinosaurs

The article used to define coprolites as fossilised dinosaur dung. It is any fossilised dung. My understanding is that dinosaur fossils have to be made of things less soluble than phosphate to have survived, so this is unlikely to have been dinosaur coprolites. Can someone who knows more palaeontology confirm this? LachlanA (talk) 07:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]