Lima, Ricardo Jorge CruzFreire, Paulo de Tarso CavalcanteSasaki, José MarcosSaraiva, Antonio Álamo FeitosaLanfredi, Silvania [UNESP]Nobre, Marcos Augusto de Lima [UNESP]2014-05-202014-05-202007-01-01Química Nova. Sociedade Brasileira de Química, v. 30, n. 8, p. 1956-1958, 2007.0100-4042http://hdl.handle.net/11449/6951Coprolites are fossilized faeces that constitute an important source of palaeobiological informations. This paper describes the characterization of some coprolite materials originated from the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation (Araripe Basin, south of Ceará State in Brazil) by means of two techniques: X-ray powder diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). This characterization allowed us to determine the main composition of the coprolites, of the nodulus (where the coprolites were extracted) and of the sediment (where the nodulus was found) suggesting that the material was produced by a carnivorous fish of the Lower Cretaceous.1956-1958porcoprolitesX-ray diffractionFourier transform infrared spectroscopyEstudo de coprólito da bacia sedimentar do Araripe por meios de espectroscopia FT-IR e difração de Raios-XStudy of coprolites from the Araripe sedimentary basin through FT-IR spectroscopy and x-ray diffractionArtigo10.1590/S0100-40422007000800029S0100-40422007000800029Acesso abertoS0100-40422007000800029.pdf72019286007045307201928600704530