This large coprolite has an unusual light colour, was found on the beach at Lyme Regis in 2024, and displays a fish jaw within the coprolite as well as multiple fish scales, highlighting what the creature was eating in the Jurassic oceans. Instead of being the usual black colour, all of the fish scales are brown which is unusual to see. This Coprolite most likely comes from a marine reptile - either ichthyosaur or plesiosaur. Coprolites are fossilised faeces and have improved palaeontologist’s understanding on the lives of marine reptiles by studying what they ate. Approximately 195 million years old.
Fossil dimensions: 60mm x 40mm x 30mm
This large coprolite has an unusual light colour, was found on the beach at Lyme Regis in 2024, and displays a fish jaw within the coprolite as well as multiple fish scales, highlighting what the creature was eating in the Jurassic oceans. Instead of being the usual black colour, all of the fish scales are brown which is unusual to see. This Coprolite most likely comes from a marine reptile - either ichthyosaur or plesiosaur. Coprolites are fossilised faeces and have improved palaeontologist’s understanding on the lives of marine reptiles by studying what they ate. Approximately 195 million years old.
Fossil dimensions: 60mm x 40mm x 30mm
