sarcophagal (sark of a gal)

[ .. So this natural balm can at utmost but keep the body living till the life's taper be burnt out; or, after death, give a short and insensible preservation to it in the sar cophagal grave. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 376. sarcophagan (sär-kof'a-gan), n . [ -an .] A carnivorous marsupial; a member of the Sarcophaga .