Lumbricaria

Item number: FOS32

Price: EUR 22.00 

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