LLeonard Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Attached pictures are of a stone I discovered in our garden after receiving a load of landscape rock, believe they cam from Colorado. This particular stone is shaped like a road apple left by a horse. It is domed with a flat side like, as I said, a road apple left by a horse. Some of the surfaces are similar to a hard gray shell; while those areas where the shell has broken away are loosely packed red, black and clear crystalyn material that crumbles easily from the stone with light touch of the finger. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLeonard Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 Photo #1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Can you post a close up of the surface and the broken crumbly area please? Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Welcome to the Forum! Sorry, doesn't look like a coprolite to me. Lacks most of the details one would want to see for it to be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Really need more pictures from other angles. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 37 minutes ago, Carl said: Welcome to the Forum! Sorry, doesn't look like a coprolite to me. Lacks most of the details one would want to see for it to be one. You are right. It does remind be a bit of the specimens discussed here: I keep hoping for herbivore coprolites to turn up. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 2 hours ago, GeschWhat said: You are right. It does remind be a bit of the specimens discussed here: I keep hoping for herbivore coprolites to turn up. Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLeonard Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 Dino Poo 1, 2 are videos of spot on the stone that flaked off and Poo 3 is a video of the back side of the flake. (Videos were taken with a Carson/zOrb 35x Digital Microscope.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MrbN7fxhsQCdJFIiOiJrcXR49C2cWF-t/view?usp=drive_web https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D9DYtJ3_HUbThDaFex2w7Q5aV__pkyr3/view?usp=drive_web https://drive.google.com/file/d/14dpQXRejxLsg6z72Pw7puFapKnMeaYMs/view?usp=drive_web Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Microscopic photos would be better. I wasn't able to view the 3rd video (permissions?). From what I could see, it looked very shiny. Was it wet? If not, it looked like it contained mica. That is not something you would see (or should I say not something I have seen) in coprolites. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLeonard Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 I re-copied all three microscopic views because it was reported that one of them had permission issues. Notes 1. The stone is not wet, it is completely dry. 2. The visible vegetation fibers are of interest to me, explanation...anyone? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MrbN7fxhsQCdJFIiOiJrcXR49C2cWF-t/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/14dpQXRejxLsg6z72Pw7puFapKnMeaYMs/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D9DYtJ3_HUbThDaFex2w7Q5aV__pkyr3/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWKNmLRIFWzUhoeWlzINi3yOF2B7YU8o/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_2hVBjaBXdkkND1k_ZZlwxuz8b8y6xk_/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gCiSs4U7TRAwBn7ycBJ75I0phskoEB0v/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ESbkLZ-JnyalFVdlhpSjZHZVpwLXdiV3JkbXFtTE5Fd0VF/view?usp=sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Can you please post the photos directly on the the thread rather than providing links? Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLeonard Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 I tried that, the forum wont permit direct posting of large files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Can you try editing them to make them smaller? Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLeonard Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 IMG_20180703_163438567.jpg.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daves64 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Actually I think she meant using paint to resize them. Right click on the image and select Edit, then Resize to make them smaller. It reduces the size & the "weight". A 6 mb picture can be reduced down to less than 300 kb without losing much in image quality. You can also crop the images in Paint as well (removing excess image clutter from outside the subject itself). Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertramp Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Maybe you have a piece of poorly cemented grus, resulting from chemical and mechanical weathering of a crystalline (granitoid?) rock, or a chunk of hightly weathered crystalline rock, which would give the same macroscopic result. https://www.google.it/search?q=grus+geology&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAwrf8uKDcAhWJ66QKHeb4CLIQ_AUICigB&biw=1517&bih=705 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLeonard Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Close-ups as .bmp files. Vegitation 1.bmp Vegitation 2.bmp Vegitation 3.bmp I'm unable to add the over view .bmp at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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