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Coprolite or stalagmite?

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paleoman1234

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I need help identifying this item. Not sure exactly what it is. A man from Texas told me it was the finest Coprolite he had seen in 30 years. I would like to have some more opinions.

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Miocene_Mason Regular Member

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‘Tis a cool looking concretion.

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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abyssunder Regular Member

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It might be an iron-oxide concretion.

 

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comparative picture from here

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Also, what is the size of it?

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