Posted on 07/01/2024 8:30:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona — aptly called the Poozeum — are among the tinier bits of evidence that indicate T. rex wasn't much of a chewer, but rather swallowed whole chunks of prey.
The sample is one of more than 7,000 on display at the museum that opened in May in Williams, a town known for its Wild West shows along Route 66, wildlife attractions and a railway to Grand Canyon National Park...
Inside, display cases filled with coprolites — fossilized feces from animals that lived millions of years ago — line the walls. They range from minuscule termite droppings to a massive specimen that weighs 20 pounds (9 kilograms)...
Coprolites aren't tremendously common but they can make up the majority of fossils found at some sites, and people have learned more and more about them over the past few decades, said Anthony Fiorillo, executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science...
A highlight of Frandsen's collection is a specimen that holds a Guinness World Record for being the largest coprolite left by a carnivorous animal. Measuring more than 2 feet (61 centimeters) long and over 6 inches (15 centimeters) wide, Frandsen said it's believed to be from a T. rex, given where it was found on a private ranch in South Dakota in 2019...
A highlight of Frandsen's collection is a specimen that holds a Guinness World Record for being the largest coprolite left by a carnivorous animal. Measuring more than 2 feet (61 centimeters) long and over 6 inches (15 centimeters) wide, Frandsen said it's believed to be from a T. rex, given where it was found on a private ranch in South Dakota in 2019.
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The Poozeum - World Famous Dinosaur Poop Museum & Gift Shop
109 West Railroad Avenue, Williams, Arizona 86046, United States
Thanks for the link!
Do they have the ancient species known as Josephus Scrantonus Bidenia?
They don’t have anything that old.
The movie Jurassic Part gave us five foot tall poop piles of T Rex that also included satellite phones.
Doesn’t Dr. Jill want $2 Billion for a “Presidential Library”.
Will it have the history and display of Joe’s poop?
In some parallel universe, there already are museum tour guides talking about “that ancient species” known as The Homo Sapien in that very same manner. “After AI systems did away with perfunctory reproduction of Humans as keepsakes, pets and novelty or gag gifts, the only thing left behind were their “waste products”.
No imagination necessary!
I bet somebody, somewhere, makes jewelry out of that stuff.
>> I bet somebody, somewhere, makes jewelry out of that stuff.
Sure. They may not even wait around for it to fossilize. ;-)
Given that the average herbivore, over the course of its life, will need to eat about 2 lbs of food to gain 1 lb of weight - and that it will then excrete about 2 lbs of feces - I would have thought that, pound for pound, coprolites would be far more common than skeletal fossils (especially insofar as skeletons represent only a fraction of the animal's original body weight).
Must be because feces deteriorate to a greater extent.
Regards,
I hope they named it Bono.
Many years ago, I needed to climb up a tall tower on Tiefort Mountain in Ft Irwin, Mojave desert. Antenna installation at 7-8k feet.
Of course, being such a righteous place for a nest, hawks had populated the tower.
lots of raptor scat. The amount of bones was impressive.
occurred to me a bird expert could have a time analyzing the bird’s diet.
i was impressed how the bird got those bones through the guts.....
Bkmk
You wpuld be correct.
“The pooseum? Its up on the turd floor...”
I am depressed.
Maybe that’s where Fossil watches came from...
Yup.
They’ve been at a while. :^) As a kid I was impressed when little deposits of nearly intact guts would be on top of the snow, having been ptui’ed there by, I guess, owls in flight.
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