Description:

Colorful Dinosaur Coprolite. This colorful and interesting fossil comes from the business end of a 150 million year old plant eating dinosaur. Coprolites are fossilized dung that can give us information about what dinosaurs ate, as well as bone fragments from carnivorous dinosaurs and plant material from herbivorous dinos. This very large 7 x 5.5 inch over 7 pound coprolite has the classic pebbly exterior surface and one side has been cut and polished to show its colorful interior which at first glance looks like a piece of petrified wood. The colors of reds, grays, and various shades of creams and browns represent mineral displacement of the organic material over many millions of years. This fossil is much larger more and colorful than most coprolites found in the Morrison Formation of Montana and represents a very large dinosaur such as a Stegosaurus or a sauropod. A somewhat larger but less colorful coprolite recently brought $6,000 at auction.

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Estimated Value $350 - 450.

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