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Check Out The Giant Coprolite


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Meet "El Grunto".

Size: 24”x20”
Weight: 307.2lbs
Area Found: Eastern Utah, Morrison Formation
Age: Jurassic
Coprolite Type: Crystallized
Interesting Features: Invertebrate holes/burrows
Dinosaur Type: Sauropod?

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Impressive! The invert burrows are the prize (in my mind, anyway); a snapshot of the economies of the ecology!

"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!

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Very cool! Is it from Missouri?

It is from Montana.

I still can't get over that 300 pounds...Amazing!

I always have to imagine the size of where it came out... :bow:

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This is fascinating. Thanks for the post. It is a wonderful example of scientific inquiry trumping our natural "will to believe." That is, it's wonderful to observe something amazing, but the true beauty is in the method that leads our observations to the best possible understanding.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

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Still, long live the legend of El Grunto!

"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!

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