copreservation

noun

copreservation

noun

Etymology From co- + preservation.

1

The joint preservation of two or more organisms.

  • However, Phthiraptera are almost absent from the fossil record, a possible peculiarity of the difficulty of host-parasite copreservation, […]2020, Geoff Williams, The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests, page 129:

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