Dinosaur poop

[Siwash]

Kayaking yesterday, found this in a carboniferous/Pennsylvanian era location. . . shale, lignite, mud rock.

 

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[DizzyDigger]

Prehistoric moose turd?

 

[old digger]

Your item sure looks like a fossilized fungus, being that it was found along with coal deposits.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Looks like a weathered barite rose. Did you find it in the dry Southwest?

 

[Siwash]

Illinois

 

[Goodyguy]

Dinosaur coprolite is a rare find and as far as I have been able to research, no such specimens have ever been found in Illinois.
Take to a university paleontology department to have a positive ID.

Would be a great find if confirmed!

GG~

 

[ToddsPoint]

Illinois was an ocean when the dino's were around. No dino stuff in IL that I'm aware of. Gary

 

[Siwash]

Some interesting youtube videos tell the dino tale; glaciers scraped off that layer, but there are a few tiny points in the state where dino remains have been found. Not in the location I found htis, though.

 

[Red-Coat]

Kayaking yesterday, found this in a carboniferous/Pennsylvanian era location. . . shale, lignite, mud rock.


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There were no dinosaurs (anywhere) in the Carboniferous/Pennsylvanian. That would be at least 50 million years too early. Dinosaurs didn't begin appearing until the Triassic, no more than 250 million years ago, and the earliest forms were small bipedal creatures no more than two meters long, including the tail.

 

[Fossils]

It doesn’t really look like a coprolite. If it is a fossil, it’s probably a sort of fossilized coral or sponge. However, it’s most likely just a weathered rock.

 

[bowwinkles]

Siwash, did you find any fossilized TP in that same area?? If you did then you may have a good clue as to what it is.