Napoleon North Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Hi This is fish coprolite? Location: Skałki Twardowskiego , Kraków,Southern Poland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 It's hard to see, but is there a faint spiral? That would indicate shark coprolite. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Please provide end-views of the specimen to see which one of the possibilities could be excluded : tube worm, coral, sponge, coprolite " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 I'll go with a borow on this object. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Looks like one to me @GeschWhat @Carl John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 I can't really tell on my phone. I won't have access to my computer until latter next week. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Could be a coprolite, but I am not seeing much to confirm that rather than suggest that. As for a spiral, I also don't see much evidence of that. But keep in mind that spiral coprolites would come from sharks but also rays, chimaeroids, sawfishes, amiids, gars, paddlefish, sturgeons, lungfishes, and coelacanths. I.e., all non-teleost fishes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanDye Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Hard question as Carl said 31 minutes ago, Carl said: Could be a coprolite, but I am not seeing much to confirm that rather than suggest that. As for a spiral, I also don't see much evidence of that. But keep in mind that spiral coprolites would come from sharks but also rays, chimaeroids, sawfishes, amiids, gars, paddlefish, sturgeons, lungfishes, and coelacanths. I.e., all non-teleost fishes. coprolites are very often then not only identifiable by a class or order and dietitian sadly the family and genus may never be known but based on the conjectures around this topic the specimen is just not quite something someone can easily identify either way it's still a cool fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 The shape is right for a fish coprolite, but I don't see any inclusions. I second Carl's opinion. If it is a coprolite, it looks to be the type that may be porous. You could try touching it to the tip of your tongue to see if it sticks. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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