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2.5" Sandy Stingray Coprolite - Green River Formation
This is a really cool 2.5" wide coprolite (fossil poop) collected this last summer from our own Fossil Safari Quarry in the Green River Formation of Wyoming. Given its sandy appearance, this most likely was produced by a stingray (Heliobatis radians?.
Comes with an acrylic display stand.
"Stingrays may have ingested sand near shore while feeding on ostracods. It's gritty going in, scratchy coming out" (The Great Wall of Coprolites in the bathroom of the Fossil Butte National Monument Visitor Center.)
Comes with an acrylic display stand.
"Stingrays may have ingested sand near shore while feeding on ostracods. It's gritty going in, scratchy coming out" (The Great Wall of Coprolites in the bathroom of the Fossil Butte National Monument Visitor Center.)
About Fossil Lake
50 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch, these fish thrived in Fossil Lake, which was fed by the Uinta and Rocky Mountain highlands. The anoxic conditions at the bottom of Fossil Lake slowed bacterial decomposition, prevented scavengers from disturbing corpses, and, most interestingly, suffocated creatures that ventured into the oxygen-starved aquatic layer. The result is a miraculous exhibition of Eocene biota: a subtropical aquatic community within sycamore forests, teeming with creatures such as freshwater stingrays, dog-sized horses, menacing alligators, early flying bats, and one of the first primates.
A view of one of the commercial quarries where fossils from the Green River Formation are collected.
50 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch, these fish thrived in Fossil Lake, which was fed by the Uinta and Rocky Mountain highlands. The anoxic conditions at the bottom of Fossil Lake slowed bacterial decomposition, prevented scavengers from disturbing corpses, and, most interestingly, suffocated creatures that ventured into the oxygen-starved aquatic layer. The result is a miraculous exhibition of Eocene biota: a subtropical aquatic community within sycamore forests, teeming with creatures such as freshwater stingrays, dog-sized horses, menacing alligators, early flying bats, and one of the first primates.
A view of one of the commercial quarries where fossils from the Green River Formation are collected.
SPECIES
Heliobatis radians?
LOCATION
Fossil Safari Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming
FORMATION
Green River Formation
SIZE
Fossil: 2.5" wide, Plate: 5 x 3.5"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#357530
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