painshill Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 What say you to this?: http://boingboing.net/2014/07/18/world-beatingly-giant-dinosaur.html Not dinosaur, obviously… but coprolite, cololite or just a siderite concretion? Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattalic Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Looks like poop, but I read from another article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/buy-worlds-longest-dinosaur-poo-3881520#ixzz37sjgQjGz That they dated it younger than 33 MYA ... and then wrongly said "Dinosaur".... Maybe turtle feces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 My only real reservation is how unerringly straight it is... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 And to the winner goes the spoils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Wait....so you guys mean to tell me that your 40" movements aren't straight?! I've been doing it wrong.... It looks like coprolite to me. I wonder if there are any inclusions. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 There is a paper on these "coprolites" from the Wilkes Formation. It suggests they aren't really coprolites. The paper is: Mustoe, G.E, 2001. Enigmatic origin of ferruginous "coprolites": Evidence from the Miocene Wilkes Formation, southwestern Washington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Is this from the Wilkes Formation? I wondered... There's some real strange forms coming out of there that suggest coprolite, but I don't buy into the idea that they are. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 If a coprolite, that would have taken some skill. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yes its from the Wilkes formation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) What a crappy topic. Maybe they just assembled it wrong? Edited July 22, 2014 by Herb "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 There is a paper on these "coprolites" from the Wilkes Formation. It suggests they aren't really coprolites. The paper is: Mustoe, G.E, 2001. Enigmatic origin of ferruginous "coprolites": Evidence from the Miocene Wilkes Formation, southwestern Washington. From the abstract: "These objects have been widely accepted as being coprolites, but the ferruginous composition, absence of internal inclusions, and scarcity of associated vertebrate remains suggest that they may instead be pseudofossils created by mechanical deformation of plastic sediment." Really, the only thing that recommends them for the coprolite ID is their highly suggestive shape. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) Judging from the amount of these "coprolites" I have seen for sale coming out of Washington, it would suggest that the area could be considered a major scratch box for whatever animals would have laid them down. Nice thought huh? From the looks of this sample, the creature would have had to be slowly moving while depositing it... either that or it had the straightest colon I've ever heard of. Edited July 22, 2014 by caldigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 That area is loaded with these things (no pun!), but there are no remains of anything that could have 'deposited' them. None. Lots of plant fossils, though. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbrosen Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) I think this may be relevant http://www.mineralcouncil.org/apr2002.htm Edited July 23, 2014 by bbrosen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 My only real reservation is how unerringly straight it is... "Straight shooter".... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I do not think it is a coprolite. I really do not want to think about what happened to any animal that created it if it is one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Giant earthworm left it behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Giant earthworm left it behind. Probably as good a theory as any... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 An earthworm? Try wrestling that bait onto a hook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Isn't that what Captain Ahab used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Pseudo-poo! All that glitters isn’t fecal gold by Andrew Farke, PLOS Blogs, July 23, 2014 http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/2014/07/23/pseudo-poo-glitters-isnt-fecal-gold/ Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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