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Post by RWA3006 on Jan 30, 2021 14:10:31 GMT -5
It was tough to get good photos because it was so bright outside I couldn't see the phone screen to compose the shots. Had to just guess if the phone was pointed the right direction.
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Post by Brian on Jan 30, 2021 14:29:02 GMT -5
The inside of that one is beautiful!
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 30, 2021 14:41:31 GMT -5
That is one of the coolest pics (no pun intended) of any of the coprolites you've shown. That interior is amazing!
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 2, 2021 7:49:23 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 2, 2021 7:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 7, 2021 12:42:05 GMT -5
Everyone ought to have some coprolite book ends.
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Post by MsAli on Feb 7, 2021 12:47:26 GMT -5
NDK and I picked up a sphere machine Friday night, the gentleman we bought it from said we couldn't leave without taking a couple rocks. He had 2 5 gal buckets full of poo. This one caught my eye and came home with me alone with some Picasso
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 7, 2021 12:48:47 GMT -5
Everyone ought to have some coprolite book ends. I really like the bookends...and I really love the choices of books for the photo-shoot.
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 7, 2021 12:56:24 GMT -5
NDK and I picked up a sphere machine Friday night, the gentleman we bought it from said we couldn't leave without taking a couple rocks. He had 2 5 gal buckets full of poo. This one caught my eye and came home with me alone with some Picasso That piece looks like it has excellent potential for something. Have you figured out what to do with it yet? Did the gent say if the poo and Picasso are Utah sourced? We have both in southern Utah.
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Post by MsAli on Feb 7, 2021 12:59:04 GMT -5
They were collected in Utah along with a bunch of material he had
I am probably gonna slab it up
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Post by Brian on Feb 7, 2021 13:08:03 GMT -5
NDK and I picked up a sphere machine Friday night, the gentleman we bought it from said we couldn't leave without taking a couple rocks. He had 2 5 gal buckets full of poo. This one caught my eye and came home with me alone with some Picasso That looks like some nice poo! I can’t wait to see what you guys do with the sphere machine, too! That is one thing I am really hoping to do someday.
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Post by Brian on Feb 7, 2021 13:09:20 GMT -5
Everyone ought to have some coprolite book ends. Very nice bookends! I’m just trying to figure out if you are trying to say something more with the choice of books, too! 😀
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 7, 2021 13:09:55 GMT -5
Everyone ought to have some coprolite book ends. I really like the bookends...and I really love the choices of books for the photo-shoot. Thanks Jason. They are two of my favorite books and I've read them many times in the last four decades. Think about it ... some of the most brilliant thoughts penned by man, bracketed by objects representing life some 146 million years ago.
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 7, 2021 13:13:04 GMT -5
Everyone ought to have some coprolite book ends. Very nice bookends! I’m just trying to figure out if you are trying to say something more with the choice of books, too! 😀 Glad you caught that nuance.
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 9, 2021 8:49:06 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY
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Post by Brian on Feb 9, 2021 10:09:43 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY Did you ever imagine that one day you would become a prehistoric pooper scooper? That is a very impressive haul! It amazes me to think that so much poop could have survived for so many millions of years. On the flip side, those dinosaurs were pooping for so long that I can’t even comprehend how many pounds of poop they must have generated. 165 million years x Pounds of poop per year = A very large amount of poop One cow poops 65 pounds a day (up to 15 times) or 12 TONS(!) a year. If a cow weighs 1,600 pounds and a hadrosaur weight 6,000 pounds, that would translate to more than 240 pounds of poop a day (44 tons a year) based on weight alone without considering the extra rough veggie diet they lived on. To extrapolate that a bit would mean a single 3-ton dinosaur would have produced 7.3 billion tons (almost 15 trillion pounds!) of poop while dinosaurs roamed the earth. That estimate makes a few big assumptions, including that a dinosaur would have averaged 3-tons over the entire 165 million years rather than evolving from smaller forms into giant lizards, and the liberties I took basing that calculation on cows rather than say an alligator or other reptilian or any other modern creature for that matter.
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Post by 1dave on Feb 9, 2021 10:23:54 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY Did you ever imagine that one day you would become a prehistoric pooper scooper? That is a very impressive haul! It amazes me to think that so much poop could have survived for so many millions of years. On the flip side, those dinosaurs were pooping for so long that I can’t even comprehend how many pounds of poop they must have generated. 165 million years x Pounds of poop per year = A very large amount of poop One cow poops 65 pounds a day (up to 15 times) or 12 TONS(!) a year. If a cow weighs 1,600 pounds and a hadrosaur weight 6,000 pounds, that would translate to more than 240 pounds of poop a day (44 tons a year) based on weight alone without considering the extra rough veggie diet they lived on. To extrapolate that a bit would mean a single 3-ton dinosaur would have produced 7.3 billion tons (almost 15 trillion pounds!) of poop while dinosaurs roamed the earth. That estimate makes a few big assumptions, including that a dinosaur would have averaged 3-tons over the entire 165 million years rather than evolving from smaller forms into giant lizards, and the liberties I took basing that calculation on cows rather than say an alligator or other reptilian or any other modern creature for that matter. Thanks for reassuring me! Now I don't have to start a SAVE THE COPROLITE movement after all.
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 9, 2021 11:06:29 GMT -5
Brian and 1daveYou're both talking about "movements"...just different definitions! LOL
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 9, 2021 18:57:56 GMT -5
TURD TUESDAY Did you ever imagine that one day you would become a prehistoric pooper scooper? That is a very impressive haul! It amazes me to think that so much poop could have survived for so many millions of years. On the flip side, those dinosaurs were pooping for so long that I can’t even comprehend how many pounds of poop they must have generated. 165 million years x Pounds of poop per year = A very large amount of poop One cow poops 65 pounds a day (up to 15 times) or 12 TONS(!) a year. If a cow weighs 1,600 pounds and a hadrosaur weight 6,000 pounds, that would translate to more than 240 pounds of poop a day (44 tons a year) based on weight alone without considering the extra rough veggie diet they lived on. To extrapolate that a bit would mean a single 3-ton dinosaur would have produced 7.3 billion tons (almost 15 trillion pounds!) of poop while dinosaurs roamed the earth. That estimate makes a few big assumptions, including that a dinosaur would have averaged 3-tons over the entire 165 million years rather than evolving from smaller forms into giant lizards, and the liberties I took basing that calculation on cows rather than say an alligator or other reptilian or any other modern creature for that matter. brian thanks for your thoughts on this. Your comments make me wonder about the efficiency of dino digestive tracts and I remember back on the ranch we often had a saying "eat like a horse." Folks who are familiar with cows and horses know that horses, not being ruminants like cows had inefficient digestion and require more feed. Thus, mother would compare the appetites of horses to teenaged boys. I have to wonder if any scientific research has been done on dino digestion. Maybe 1dave can dig something up on this.
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Post by Brian on Feb 9, 2021 19:41:32 GMT -5
Did you ever imagine that one day you would become a prehistoric pooper scooper? That is a very impressive haul! It amazes me to think that so much poop could have survived for so many millions of years. On the flip side, those dinosaurs were pooping for so long that I can’t even comprehend how many pounds of poop they must have generated. 165 million years x Pounds of poop per year = A very large amount of poop One cow poops 65 pounds a day (up to 15 times) or 12 TONS(!) a year. If a cow weighs 1,600 pounds and a hadrosaur weight 6,000 pounds, that would translate to more than 240 pounds of poop a day (44 tons a year) based on weight alone without considering the extra rough veggie diet they lived on. To extrapolate that a bit would mean a single 3-ton dinosaur would have produced 7.3 billion tons (almost 15 trillion pounds!) of poop while dinosaurs roamed the earth. That estimate makes a few big assumptions, including that a dinosaur would have averaged 3-tons over the entire 165 million years rather than evolving from smaller forms into giant lizards, and the liberties I took basing that calculation on cows rather than say an alligator or other reptilian or any other modern creature for that matter. brian thanks for your thoughts on this. Your comments make me wonder about the efficiency of dino digestive tracts and I remember back on the ranch we often had a saying "eat like a horse." Folks who are familiar with cows and horses know that horses, not being ruminants like cows had inefficient digestion and require more feed. Thus, mother would compare the appetites of horses to teenaged boys. I have to wonder if any scientific research has been done on dino digestion. Maybe 1dave can dig something up on this. Your comments about the types of plants they ate and the presence of twigs in the coprolites seems to suggest that their digestion was not that efficient. One of the parents at my kids’ old school is a paleontologist and hadrosaurs make up most of the fossils at his digs. Next time I talk to him I will try to get his thoughts on the subject.
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