Lumbricaria

Item number: FOS31

Price: EUR 15.00 

 Worm-like coprolite.  Lumbricaria was formally believed to be fossilized worm. Lumbricus = earthworm. Later on new opinion said that fossil might be a coprolite excreted by various fishes. a there was the view that it could be fish excrement. Nowadays, the prevailing opinion is that these fossilized excrements were left for us by cuttlefishes. 

Format 10,5x7,5x1 cm
Size 140 mm
Weight 210 g.
Locality Solnhofen, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Mittelfranken Co., Bavaria, Germany