A Picture of Coprolite from a Marine Reptile
At the request of several blog site readers, Everything Dinosaur has posted up a picture of the coprolite (poo) of an ichthyosaur.
Ichthyosaurus Coprolite
The Picture of the Coprolite
Marine reptile poo. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur
We at Everything Dinosaur obviously aim to please our readers. To read our earlier blog post in which we showed a photograph of a large, polished coprolite from a sauropod dinosaur: Mystery Object – What is This?
To view models and replicas of prehistoric animals (no coprolites), visit the models and figures section of Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Prehistoric Animal Figures and Replicas.
Thank you for putting a picture of your fossil on the web. I now have the nerve to go to my geologist and say “See, I’m not crazy!” By the way, I have been looking at fossil heads for 21/2 years and just discovered that some are pterosaurs. I have one similarly coloured to yours with black edges where the beak should be and its bent back three times! I wonder if the geologist(there aren’t any paleontologists here in Tasmania) will listen to my theory. I believe the heads were thrown into lakes or rivers where the tides washed over them thus turning them into silica or other minerals.