Found in my back yard

[halfdime]

My daughter found this in our back yard. I don't know what kind of stone it's in, but it appears to be some sort of vertebrate.

 

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[halfdime]

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[proletariatcsp]

From your pic it looks to me like bones. If so, it is my opinion that they came to lay in such a dissorganized pile as to suggest the end result of the digestive tract, or a trace fossil? In any case it is a rather cool find from one's own backyard. Well done!!! So long, Chris in FL.

 

[Rob in KS]

WOW I wonder if has been thru the digestive tract of a larger animal. There is a term for fossilized dung, but I can't remember it. I can't believe that you didn't get more replys. I think its cool

 

[EDDE]

its fossil coral

 

[gord]

WOW I wonder if has been thru the digestive tract of a larger animal. There is a term for fossilized dung, but I can't remember it. I can't believe that you didn't get more replys. I think its cool

They are called coprolites.

 

[diamondjim]

this is called fossil hash

basically blenderized inverts, shells and stuff, ground up by wave action. then stuff gets fossilized...then exposed washed out, worn down some more and refossilized.

what's cool is this rock is more about process than content...it tells a great deal about what the place was like way back when.