Coprolite
Fossil
Also called Fossil dung
About it
Fossil dung: rounded, sausage-shaped, or spiral lumps, often rich in phosphate and sometimes holding bits of bone or scale. Many sold are agatized and polished; Mary Anning's Lyme Regis finds helped show what they were.
- Type
- Fossil (trace fossil)
- Group
- Trace fossil
- Colours
- brown, grey, black, red, tan
- Transparency
- opaque
- Periods
- Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene, Neogene
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.