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- noun The
eating ofnon-living organic material .
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From sapro- + -phagy.
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The ancestral shift in feeding habits from saprophagy to coprophagy in the Scarabaeoidea probably coincided with the appearance of large terrestrial herbivores, particularly grazing Mesozoic reptiles and subsequently mammals
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jos? R. Verd? et al. 2010
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