Paisley Cave Coprolites!

Ancient fecal remains are not too likely around here in all this sand, but a great story popped up on the latest issue of SLOCAS's "The Artifact" and it was just too good not to share. They posted the full journal article off this link: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/eaba6404.full 

Definition, in case you forgot, or perhaps needed to forget:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite

You may not want to feast your eyes on a bounty of these images after you have eaten, but it is worth a look other times:

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=coprolites&fr=yset_chr_syc_oracle&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2FTyrannosaurus_rex_Coprolite_Poozeum.jpg&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9zZWFyY2gvaW1hZ2VzP3A9Y29wcm9saXRlcyZmcj15c2V0X2Nocl9zeWNfb3JhY2xlJmltZ3VybD1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGZW4ud2lraXBlZGlhLm9yZyUyRndpa2klMkZTcGVjaWFsJTNBRmlsZVBhdGglMkZUeXJhbm5vc2F1cnVzX3JleF9Db3Byb2xpdGVfUG9vemV1bS5qcGc&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANfhNpnuq_Ax933Kg4gDGiV4IS_-AzpTwPeSCRE9S2ffPEXeVMyvoISUO7-_NSnmlYZ966H08GD8EpC6SQbxkdIVfLy_s6mxTybDLtVjLVpecm4WTMjq7Vm9toZzpUyr_JpT0NZyXN9XGrTB18H5O67iXGRSW0VWDY1qebiyCxgD&_guc_consent_skip=1599737738

I have a couple in my fossil collection, but the hour is late and I am too lazy to photograph and post them.

Should you need to buy some for YOUR collection, or books about them, I found these on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=coprolites&hvadid=78683855489585&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&tag=mh0b-20&ref=pd_sl_30evus9nyl_e

I just checked the stats - people (read bots) are now reading this c-r-a-p  stuff in Malta now! I am thrilled that Turkmenistan has given up it's vaunted status!