May 01, 2008 01:59 am NEW YORK (AP) — A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old has sold at a New York auction for $960. A spokeswoman for Bonhams New York says the prehistoric deposit fetched more than its pre-auction estimate of $450 yesterday evening in Manhattan. The auction house says the dung is Jurassic era coprolite. It looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside. The buyer's name wasn't immediately released. The natural history auction also included an 18-carat gold box shaped like a crab by lapidary artist Manfred Wild. It sold for $168,000. Meteorites from the collection of Ron Oriti sold for $95,313.
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