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LumbricariaItem number: FOS32 Format: 10,5x7,5x0,4 cm Size: 45x45 mm Weight: 94 g. Locality: Solnhofen, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Mittelfranken Co., Bavaria, Germany
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.
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