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Coprolite or pseudofossil ?


Bong

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Hi everyone,

 

This is just another piece of something that I cannot identify, found at Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, UK, three days ago.

My first guess is a cropolite fossil but I'm more convinced that this is just a piece of random rock. 

Yaxely Lake is very rich in Jurassic fossils buried in the Oxford Clay found there. I managed to find a lot of belemnites and ammonites but this isn't one of them.

Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Bong

 

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It's quite an interesting specimen, in that it is hard to reconcile the structures of one side against the other.

Just an unfounded hunch, but it is attracted at all to a magnet?

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It may looks like a ferruginous concretion, in my thinking, but I could be wrong. I can't exclude the possible spiraling coprolite at all. :headscratch:

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12 hours ago, abyssunder said:

It may looks like a ferruginous concretion, in my thinking, but I could be wrong. I can't exclude the possible spiraling coprolite at all. :headscratch:

 

13 hours ago, Auspex said:

It's quite an interesting specimen, in that it is hard to reconcile the structures of one side against the other.

Just an unfounded hunch, but it is attracted at all to a magnet?

Thanks guys! I agree with abyssunder. I think it's just a concretion. :)

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