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Is this a coprolite?


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Picked this up on the foreshore on Mappleton beach (Holderness Coast, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom). I thought it looked like a poo and wondered if it was indeed a coprolite?

 

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I don't think so.

Looks more like a concretion or nodule.

 

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Hard to say. I’m not seeing any inclusions. You could try scraping a small area with  an X-acto blade.  The surface is pretty eroded. If you can scrape down a little way with the blade to expose a bit of the underlying material. If it feels a bit waxy as you are scraping, it could be a coprolite. If it feels at all gritty, it most likely just a rock.

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