triassic cowpatie

[val horn]

I found this rock when i went to an old triassic quarry where footprints have been found.  did not find any footprints, found some little hollow molds of shrimp like creatures  (malocostraca- phyllocarids?) ( orange is the impression of the  hollow) and a couple of these cow pat shaped rocks.    Is it just geological?

[Fossildude19]

First picture is too blurry to make anything out. 

Second one would need to be looked at through a microscope or hand lens to see if there are any recognizable inclusions. 

 

@GeschWhat  @Carl

[val horn]

I took a couple of photos maybe it will help

[GeschWhat]

Hard to tell, but I don't recognize the inclusions - guessing they are mineral. I don't see anything definitive. Can you take a close-up of the surface, especially if there is a place where it is broken/chipped?

[val horn]

could not find much of a cracked area to look at, so i hit it with a hammer and chisel on one of the internal lines.  I am enclosing the pictures but can not say that I see anything hopefull in them.  So the rock much not be full of S**t, and may just end up in the rock garden.    Please let me know what you see.

[Carl]

I agree with Lori: very hard to say with this one. But I'm not getting a particularly strong coprolite vibe from it.

[Plax]

I'd google "Paul Olson, Triassic" and start looking at the scientific literature related to your site. I'm getting a fossil vibe from this rock but nothing I know enough about to make a good comment. Any chance it's a rip up clast from neighboring Cambrian rocks? The way it's rounded am guessing it is a reworked clast or a stream bed find.

[jpc]

I'm with Lori and Carl.

 

[val horn]

thank you for your thoughts and efforts.  Clearly a wet environment from the tracks that are known (but not found by me) to the molds of the little shrimp like creatures.  I will take a look at the suggested article.