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Mar 6, 2024 23:22:07 GMT -5 agatewhisperer said:

That's a pretty interesting one RWA3006. Do you see that coloration very much?

Not so much with the pink but the gold patterns are not rare and I have noticed there are a number of "families" of common variations. I'll dig up a few photos to illustrate the idea...

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RWA3006 Cave Dweller Member since March 2009 Posts: 4,690	COPROLITE Mar 7, 2024 1:02:58 GMT -5 RickB, rockjunquie, and 6 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by RWA3006 on Mar 7, 2024 1:02:58 GMT -5
	If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP

RWA3006 Cave Dweller Member since March 2009 Posts: 4,690	COPROLITE Mar 7, 2024 1:05:21 GMT -5 RickB, rockjunquie, and 6 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by RWA3006 on Mar 7, 2024 1:05:21 GMT -5
	If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP

RWA3006 Cave Dweller Member since March 2009 Posts: 4,690	COPROLITE Mar 7, 2024 1:08:42 GMT -5 RickB, rockjunquie, and 7 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by RWA3006 on Mar 7, 2024 1:08:42 GMT -5
	If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP

agatewhisperer freely admits to licking rocks Member since May 2020 Posts: 837	COPROLITE Mar 9, 2024 18:43:36 GMT -5 via mobile RWA3006, 1dave, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by agatewhisperer on Mar 9, 2024 18:43:36 GMT -5 Thanks! I think the pinkish and gold threw me off on that original cut. Very cool

RWA3006 Cave Dweller Member since March 2009 Posts: 4,690	COPROLITE Mar 12, 2024 10:05:36 GMT -5 rockjunquie, 1dave, and 6 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by RWA3006 on Mar 12, 2024 10:05:36 GMT -5 TURD TUESDAY
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RWA3006 Cave Dweller Member since March 2009 Posts: 4,690	COPROLITE Mar 15, 2024 7:13:05 GMT -5 rockjunquie, 1dave, and 5 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by RWA3006 on Mar 15, 2024 7:13:05 GMT -5
	If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP

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RWA3006 Cave Dweller Member since March 2009 Posts: 4,690	COPROLITE Mar 19, 2024 7:20:38 GMT -5 RickB, rockjunquie, and 10 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by RWA3006 on Mar 19, 2024 7:20:38 GMT -5 TURD TUESDAY
	If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP

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Robin

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Here is an unusual coprolite. Not only is the color and contrast strange, the exterior merits study. It's possible that some sort of fungi grew on the exterior and then fossilized, or maybe that's just all turd sitting there. What do you think?

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Mar 24, 2024 11:38:07 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

I see where you're getting the idea of a fungus-type growth on the exterior. I wonder...how would that fungi stayed "intact" over the millennia so it maintained the look it does...?

I know that some fungi is quite woody and could have been just as durable as the turd. A burial event like a flood could have put it in the vault so it would lay there undisturbed till fossilization.

I think most of the coprolites I find were buried which preserved their features so well.

I lean towards this hypothesis because of vast quantities of pet wood I've found in Wyoming that are severely encased in algae.

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Mar 24, 2024 12:06:19 GMT -5 RWA3006 said:

Mar 24, 2024 11:38:07 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

I see where you're getting the idea of a fungus-type growth on the exterior. I wonder...how would that fungi stayed "intact" over the millennia so it maintained the look it does...?

I know that some fungi is quite woody and could have been just as durable as the turd. A burial event like a flood could have put it in the vault so it would lay there undisturbed till fossilization.

I think most of the coprolites I find were buried which preserved their features so well.

I lean towards this hypothesis because of vast quantities of pet wood I've found in Wyoming that are severely encased in algae.

Oh duh! I wasn't thinking of a "sudden event" happening which would have immediately buried them and preserved the shape.

It brings to mind the people "preserved" from the Mt. Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii.

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