Help With Id'ing This Find...

[jwcunninghamjr]

I am not sure as to what this is but the son thought maybe it was Dugong Corpolite with a worm hole in it. Although sometimes I don't question his id'ing but thought I would ask her and see what you all think. We found this on a recent camping trip here in Central Florida and of course where ever there is any gravel or rock roads my son always comes back with something. We also found some broken megs small intact shark teeth and a bunch of nice size horse teeth and this.

Thanks guys for the help!

[jwcunninghamjr]

Just some extra information, the area that we were in has roads that are covered with spoil gravel from a local phosphate mine in Hardee County which is the Bone Valley Formation. There were a lot of frags of dugong bones, shark teeth some nice size broken megs and tons of horse teeth as well. Hope this is all you need in help id'ing this find!

Thanks again.

[Fossildude19]

Can we get a few more pictures of the item in sunlight, from different angles, and different sides?

Preferably with something in the picture for scale, like a ruler.

First impression with the poor picture to work from is an oddly weathered limestone nodule.

Better pics might change that guess, though.

Regards,

EDIT:

Attempted to resize and brighten the picture :

Still looks like a rock to me. Maybe other's will weigh in.

Regards,

Edited May 27, 2015 by Fossildude19

[GeschWhat]

It is hard to say for sure if you have a coprolite. One thing you can try is to see if it sticks to your tongue (just touch it to the tip of your tongue). If it sticks, it could be coprolite, but would most likely be from a carnivore. If it doesn't stick, it could still be a coprolite, but the only way to tell for sure is if you can see undigested remains of the meal (bits of bone, scales...or in the case of an herbivore, vegetable matter). Sometimes, the only way to see this is by taking thin sections and looking at them under a microscope. Unless the coprolite is directly associated with the fossilized remains of its poopetrator, it's almost impossible to tell what creature created it. Coprolites from herbivores are extremely rare, but not unheard of. I would file it this under dubiocoprolite.