Sauropod coprolite (was Re: Sauropod necks)

["Grant Harding" <granth@cyberus.ca>]

Dan Varner wrote:
>  About two months ago I received a flyer in the mail from TIME/LIFE
>advertising their Paleoworld Video Liberry. If I would have acted "NOW" I
>would have received as a free gift a genuine dinosaur fossil--a sauropod
>coprolite from the Jurassic period.

In fact, they have several small pieces of sauropod coprolite on sale at
Edmund Scientific near Philadelphia (it's actually somewhere in New Jersey,
but I don't know exactly where).  I got one - the "Certificate of
Authenticity" said that it was 125-160 Ma old, and from either Utah or
Colorado.  The sheet also said that it was *definitely* _Apatosaurus_, but I
have my doubts regarding that.

-Grant
--
Grant Harding
High school student/amateur paleontologist
granth@cyberus.ca
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"...I suspect he actually has a subspecies of _Stenonychosaurus_, though I
haven't decided for sure...small Triassic carnivore--two meters from pes to
acetabulum. In point of fact, a rather ordinary theropod..." -from
Crichton's _The Lost World_