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Coprolite
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
Oxford Clay Formation
Collector: E R Matheau-Raven
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Height: 14 mm
Diameter: 6 mm
Orton Pit
Cambridgeshire
England
United Kingdom
This coprolite is from a marine creature that swam in the Jurassic seas that once covered this parts of England. The dark inclusions that can be seen on the surface are Onychites (cephalopod hooks). In April 2016, the University of Minnesota X-ray Computed Tomography Lab scanned the specimen using a X5000 high resolution microCT system with a twin head 225 kV x-ray source and a Dexela area detector (3073 x 3889 pixels). Many of the images shown here are of individual 3D elements/features within the coprolite that were separated/isolated using Blob3D.
The taxonomic classification given is for the inclusions, not the coprolite.
Aside from the hooks, it is hard to definitively identify the inclusions without damage to the coprolite. The following is a list of inclusions:
Acknowledgements: Thank you to Neale Monks and Christian Klug for providing input.
Edited by GeschWhat
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