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Post by beefjello on Dec 13, 2009 17:04:31 GMT -5
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JEFFD
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Post by JEFFD on Dec 13, 2009 17:15:13 GMT -5
pretty cool, not sure what it is.
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Post by Woodyrock on Dec 14, 2009 1:11:17 GMT -5
I think you might be on track with the coprilite........sounds good, and those big meat eaters did not bone out their dinners. Anothr thought, it could possibly be from a diseased bone? Of course, I am only guessing, but what ever it is it is no good, please send it to me for safekeeping.
Woody
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Post by Toad on Dec 14, 2009 7:56:47 GMT -5
So you going to tumble it?
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Post by beefjello on Dec 14, 2009 8:47:57 GMT -5
Thanks guys! Woody I think I'll hold on to it, but thanks just the same.. heh. Todd I'm not going to tumble it. If anything I might cut a slab from it someday, but for now it's staying as-is.
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Dec 14, 2009 13:37:49 GMT -5
It's very cool, whatever it is. It has a lot of great stuff going on.
Chuck
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free4rms
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Post by free4rms on Dec 14, 2009 19:51:53 GMT -5
Wow, whatever it is.. I can see some killer cabs coming out of it!
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carloscinco
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Post by carloscinco on Dec 14, 2009 20:15:55 GMT -5
Whup out the saw!
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on Dec 15, 2009 12:52:15 GMT -5
Not trying to be a smart -$$ but it looks like a piece of petrified stew meat !
Bone, fat and all. It is WAAAAAY neat lookin , and, the only thing wrong with THAT specimen is,
it doesn't weigh 20 lbs. MORE !
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 15, 2009 13:15:45 GMT -5
That is a piece of dino bone! Looks like the minerals got into this bone and started the petrifited process-you got a winner! ;D
A person don't see many bones like that........
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 15, 2009 22:23:38 GMT -5
Boy Beef, that is an odd one! I'd lean more towards bone too. Just not a full cellular replacement. But then, I look at some of the last pics in the series and I'm almost thinking some kind of fossil wood. Hurry up and slab up that puppy so we can see it in a nice clean cross section. I love these puzzlers. I could look at them and ponder what they might be all day!. I got a couple of slabs from Daniel awhile ago that I pull out every month or so and stare at a long while. I keep thinking that if I eyeball them long enough, they'll tell me what the heck they are but to no avail *L*....Mel
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Post by NDK on Dec 16, 2009 22:22:29 GMT -5
That is really cool Beef! Did you collect it or purchase it somewhere? If you collected it, maybe there's more?
Nate
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Post by johnjsgems on Dec 17, 2009 0:22:12 GMT -5
It could be bone that partially rotted away leaving a void that allowed a cast to form in void. What remained of the bone was replaced showing typical dino cell structure. Petrified wood that was covered green will shrink leaving voids that can fill with agate. The parts of yours without cell structure looks like very nice moss agate. Where is it from?
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Post by stick on Feb 9, 2010 22:59:05 GMT -5
I assume you wet this before taking the pictures? We have buckets full of dino bone, and none of it looks like that. But i'm no expert.
Stick
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Post by rockrookie on Mar 12, 2010 23:04:57 GMT -5
nice color !!
that is a really unique treasure.
--paul
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carloscinco
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Post by carloscinco on Mar 20, 2010 19:25:13 GMT -5
I would'a bet it's wood.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Mar 21, 2010 16:16:28 GMT -5
So when ya gonna cut it?!!! I couldn't stand not seeing what the rest of it looks like!
Donnie
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Post by beefjello on Mar 22, 2010 8:24:51 GMT -5
Nate and John I got this in a small collection I bought. I really have no idea where it was collected. Stick, yes it was wet when I took these pics. Donnie I haven't brought myself to cut it yet. If I ever do you can bet I'll post the pics.  |
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 30, 2010 16:56:19 GMT -5
At the bottom of pics 2 & 3 you can clearly see bone cell structure.
Don
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