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Dinosaur Bone and Coprolite ID?


Zenmaster6

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Hey all. So I just got some of that winter polar vortex stuff and now, there is snow about 2 feet high. I am now indoors and can not go out hunting fossils. So, I went to Michaels to look for fabrics to tie flies for fly fishing. Then I saw a "National Geographic Dig Kit with Genuine Fossils" It was on sale for 5$ and promised 3 real fossils so I just grabbed it and busted it out. After an hour of looking through online, Amazon and many others. I cannot figure out what bone or what coprolite this is. Its driving me crazy not being able to just slap a label on it. Can someone help me figure this out?

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After looking online a bit I found another similar dinosaur bone on a website being sold as "Dinosaur bone" with the Genus saying: Dinosaur bone. I'm beginning to think this is the name of a rock.

 

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2 hours ago, Zenmaster6 said:

Genus saying: Dinosaur bone

This should stand as a warning that you are dealing with business people, and not paleontologists.

Chunkosaurus is the name we refer to bits of bone like this as. I doubt it can be confidently assigned to any group of animals really.

The coprolite identification  seems a bit sketchy to me also, but others may have more to say about it.

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The "coprolite" looks like an ironstone concretion. 

The other may be dinosaur bone, but looks more like quartz or quartzite to me. 

 

The pic from the website that you posted (REMINDER - post only photos, no advertisement copy!) does show polished chunks of dinosaur bone. 
That is about all that can be said, as the pieces are too small and have no diagnostic details, other than the cobble like pattern that is indicative of dinosaur bone. 

Unfortunately, I think your $5.00 was wasted. :( 

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Thank you for commenting. Both of you. I'm not entirely let down as I didn't pay much but any identification is good, even if its not a fossil.

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I just want to add limonite for the yellow colored areas of your "coprolite".

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12 hours ago, Kendra5152 said:

Is this dinosaur bone

The picture is to blurry to tell.

Please set the object on a plane colored surface and place a scale (ruler preferred) next to it.

 

Thank You.

 

Also it is better to start Your own thread rather than tagging onto someone else's thread.

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13 hours ago, Kendra5152 said:

Is this dinosaur bone

We also need more views and locality of where it was found.  Agree better to start your own topic

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