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Post by 1dave on Aug 22, 2020 14:07:51 GMT -5
Those are probably "drying cracks" like you see in drying mud. That’s what I figure, too, but it still reminds me. So, since we refer to Dino bone as “gembone,” what we have here could be marketed as brecciated gem poop. 😂 Septarian Gem Poop! |
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Post by EricD on Aug 23, 2020 10:57:35 GMT -5
I think this turd likes me.. First cut and it shows me a heart   |
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Post by RWA3006 on Aug 23, 2020 12:10:43 GMT -5
Gemturd hearts. LOL. Hope you're having fun with that stuff Eric.
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Post by EricD on Aug 23, 2020 12:23:47 GMT -5
Gemturd hearts. LOL. Hope you're having fun with that stuff Eric. Lmao! Gemturd I sure am! I haven't had a chance to grind any yet, but I have that box halfway slabbed already! |
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Post by RWA3006 on Aug 23, 2020 12:26:49 GMT -5
Speaking of hearts, love, etc, ancient humans loved coprolite because many are highly agatized and lend themselves to making implements. In my wanderings I've found much evidence of prehistoric man working on coprolite to obtain arrow heads, knives, scrapers, etc. Here's a large coprolite that had been battered to harvest flakes of agate.  |
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Post by RWA3006 on Aug 23, 2020 12:30:22 GMT -5
Here's a hillside thickly littered with large agate flakes that had been harvested by beating coprolites with quartzite hammer stones.  |
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Post by RWA3006 on Aug 23, 2020 12:35:28 GMT -5
 Often when a flint knapper was working to harvest flakes from a nodule of flint, chert, agate, or in this case coprolite, a core of the nodule would remain after a number of flakes were struck from it. The cores were simply discarded and millenia later a guy like me might find them.  |
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Post by RWA3006 on Aug 25, 2020 6:51:40 GMT -5
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Post by knave on Aug 25, 2020 9:17:29 GMT -5
So, dinosaurs had looser stool, more like a cow?
Most are found in patty form, or does botryoidal coprolite exist?
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Post by RWA3006 on Aug 25, 2020 12:19:55 GMT -5
Evan, it was probably more like elephant that had been browsing on trees, shrubs, etc.
We know plant life was much more limited back then and after seeing undigested and identifiable plants in coprolites I'm convinced the main diet of the hadrosaurs was pine boughs.
I've found many twig cross sections in slabs that are the diameter of my fingers.
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Post by RWA3006 on Sept 1, 2020 6:52:27 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY . Here's one I'd rate as museum grade.  |
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Post by knave on Sept 1, 2020 7:10:50 GMT -5
Wowzers...
I would agree
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 1, 2020 7:11:59 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY . Here's one I'd rate as museum grade.
Oh yeah, that is really sweet! That's what I think of when I think of gem coprolite.
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Post by RWA3006 on Sept 1, 2020 8:27:04 GMT -5
So far in my experience I have to cut at least 400 coprolites to get one this good.
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 1, 2020 8:29:05 GMT -5
So far in my experience I have to cut at least 400 coprolites to get one this good. Wow! |
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Post by miket on Sept 1, 2020 9:53:42 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY . Here's one I'd rate as museum grade. Beautiful!  |
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Post by stephan on Sept 1, 2020 16:23:10 GMT -5
So far in my experience I have to cut at least 400 coprolites to get one this good. Looks like it was worth the effort |
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Post by RWA3006 on Sept 1, 2020 22:34:37 GMT -5
Here's a shot of the rather unremarkable exterior. No real hint of the beauty inside.  |
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Post by RWA3006 on Sept 8, 2020 21:34:40 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY  |
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Post by RWA3006 on Sept 15, 2020 11:59:11 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY  |
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