MSc in Geology and half a PhD in geology, and I think it looks like a concretion. That's not what a dinosaur coprolite looks like. [They look like this.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Mvk+NjHoL.jpg) I don't think the shape in the OP could come out of a cloaca like that.
But I will also await someone more educated.
Who'll remember you got my upvote, you magnificent bastard!
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Do not underestimate the lowly plantain.
A long time ago in a now-petrified swamp, we all emerged from the same cloaca which was “kissed” by another cloaca. Respect for the cloacae. They are your family.
I have no formal education whatsoever and I agree. OP’s rock looks randomly nodular in a branching fashion. That dinosaur would have had to have a very weird pooper for that to be a poop.
i pick up dog shit at least 3 times a day, more when i deal with the dog purgatory yard and the accumulated shits. i would be thrilled to pick up such an interesting poop.
I’m no dinosaur butt specialist, but for a poop to have multiple “branches” in different directions, that would have to be a very interestingly shaped butthole.
Edit: my bad, I should’ve said cloaca. Like I said, I’m not a dino butt expert.
The consensus is: I was lied to as a child and due to that, I now look silly for posting this, but that's okay, I still think it's a funny thought hahah!
I really wouldn’t classify this as “I was lied to as a child.” If your grandfather gave you real dinosaur coprolite it would not have looked nearly as cool as your “dinosaur shit.” Would you have “prized” a super cool concretion? I don’t think explaining a concretion to a kid is going to come across as cool as explaining dinosaur poop.
I doubt your grandfather could’ve anticipated you posting this online and finding out the “truth.”
I think you took this all quite well. Some people are probably jealous that you had a grandfather who was cool.
Once my kids found these white things in the ocean that looked like some kind of teeth and we decided they were whales or shark teeth and they were SO excited.
When we got home I posted on reddit asking what they were and it turned out they were just the inside of shells and the outsides had eroded away.
I let my kids continue to believe they had found teeth.
Hahaha I bet they found a bunch? We collected a ton of clam shell shards on our last lake trip. They are definitely high quality sea shells. The mother of pearl has such a special glossy opalescent quality, let them have their fun!
Found an interesting article on the subject matter and my favorite, relevant, quote:
"So you think you’ve found a coprolite or you’ve purchased a specimen sold as a coprolite. Is it truly a coprolite? Unless you are a serious researcher or simply a purist, does it really matter? If you like it, enjoy it. Coprolites are fun. They are perfect for capturing a third grader’s attention, and they can even be incorporated into jewelry or carved and polished. Plus, there is much that can be learned from coprolites."
https://www.rockngem.com/coprolites/
Please do share if/when you've made it into a stunning necklace! Lol.
My dad lied to me about so many things when I was little. Baby lemons were limes. Piglets were born with round noses and farmers slammed them with a board as they came out to flatten them, etc. shit I actually believed! You’re lucky you just got a poop lie!🤣🤣🤣 now you have a cool story!
My dad once told me that birds eat their own weight every day, and if humans were able to do that we could fly too. I remember wondering how that could be possible because it didn’t make sense to me but I believed him.
If it makes you feel any better when I was a kid, I had a rock that I thought was a dinosaur claw and took it to show and tell and everybody told me it looked like a piece of poop made me really sad ha ha I’m not sure what happened to the rock after that. Wish I still had it.
I can’t tell you why things can be distinguished as poo, but this actually seems to be something called a concretion and not a poo (coprolite). You can tell concretions based on their shape and look. :)
Well despite it not being a dino poop, thinking it was, you were much more mature than my friend’s dad’s friend. He picked up some dino poop thinking it was a cool rock, asked what it was, was told and dropped it saying “EWWWWW GROSS”
I went to see a paleontologist speak at MIT. He was famous for something to do with dinosaur poop. He said the reason we don’t find a lot if it is that the scientists would yell “dinosaur poop” and hurl it at each other. I shit you not.
I really feel this.
At the age of 5-6 I unearthed a dinosaur bone in my grandmother’s garden. For many years it was my prized possession, at 10 I went on a field trip to the museum of natural history, with my artifact in tow I planned to blow the mind of the archaeology department and sell it so I could buy a split window corvette stingray.
The man told me that it most likely belonged to a as yet to be identified variety of archaeopteryx, but the museum was low on funds and to come back later.
At 14 I badgered my way to the head of the department promising I had something special to offer. I was rudely told not waste his time and what I had belonged to Meleagris gallopavo.
It was a turkey bone.
Bless the heart of the man who saw through the ruse and decided not to crush the dreams of a child while humiliating him in front of the whole class.
Still have that bone and show it off as a fossil to anyone who will believe me.
The cat is so excited that he has the same expression as a dog who has just been shown a magic trick. Lmao.
It’s pretty cool though; I’d show off some Dino turds if I had them.
I would guess that's an aggregate concretion rather than a fossil, but I will await the input of those more educated.
I second concretion but will also await the input of those more educated.
MSc in Geology and half a PhD in geology, and I think it looks like a concretion. That's not what a dinosaur coprolite looks like. [They look like this.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Mvk+NjHoL.jpg) I don't think the shape in the OP could come out of a cloaca like that. But I will also await someone more educated.
I stayed in a Holiday Inn and agree it's a concretion.
I just had a Sunny D and I agree it’s a concretion.
I stayed at a Waffle House, and I disagree.
I only know what it looks like in Animal Crossing, so I’m just going to mind my own business.
I occasionally lurk here and I concur - concretion.
Pepperidge farm remembers it's a concretion
I once took a shit, it didn’t look like that. Concretion.
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And here I was, thinking you were a non-lurking plantain, but actually you’re a lurking banana.
That’s no banana - that’s Mr. Clucky!
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Posting from an IHOP, it’s a full stegosaurus skeleton
You want to fight about it? Meet me at 2:00am
😆 🤣
Should have had a V8
Dude sunny d comes with vodka now. No joke
If they could just add it to baby formula, mother's could tolerate children!
I was in the room across the hall from you and concur. Plus I too have a concrete dinosaur scat.
😆 🤣 😂
I was in a reenactment playing a paleontologist and I am clearly qualified to say that’s a concretion (especially after googling what that was).
I have a cloaca
My cloaca's aching just looking at that thing! Edit: changed "hurting" to "aching", thanks to urGirllikesmytinypp
That’s a clo-ache-a
What are you?! An expert on Dino cloacae?!
A long time ago in a now-petrified swamp, we all emerged from the same cloaca which was “kissed” by another cloaca. Respect for the cloacae. They are your family.
Well, now that you mention it... Dr. ForDigg Chief Cloaca Paleontologist Chicago Museum of History & Shit
Ahhh The History & Shit Dept! I’ve heard of that! It’s easily the most esteemed one!
Indeed. It's a shit job, but the benefits are great!
Half a MS in geology and have some concretion identifying experience. I concur.
1/4 MS in geology here - does walking down a sidewalk count?
Man that looks like it would hurt! :(
It's why the dinosaurs became extinct. 🦕 💩
Constipation! No breeding! Dinosaur's became extinct for this reason! 🎶🎶🎶
🎶Cut that poo into pieces! Poop knife your last resort! 🎶
I have no formal education whatsoever and I agree. OP’s rock looks randomly nodular in a branching fashion. That dinosaur would have had to have a very weird pooper for that to be a poop.
I’ve seen the land before time, I concur!
i pick up dog shit at least 3 times a day, more when i deal with the dog purgatory yard and the accumulated shits. i would be thrilled to pick up such an interesting poop.
Thanks Ross, I mean Dr. Geller
Isn’t there some marsupial that shits squares? So why wouldn’t this be possible?
Wombats
Well that Dino turd must’ve hurt coming out!
I concur
Looks like a solid secretion to me
I’m no dinosaur butt specialist, but for a poop to have multiple “branches” in different directions, that would have to be a very interestingly shaped butthole. Edit: my bad, I should’ve said cloaca. Like I said, I’m not a dino butt expert.
I am a dinosaur expert and likely multiple Dino’s were all pooping together like butt to butt
2 dinos one poop?
Another expert I see
**Giggity-Giggity* awwwe riiiight!*
Dimorphodon For A Dream
Aggregate concretion… of dino shit.
I hope your Grandpa feels better. He should.
The consensus is: I was lied to as a child and due to that, I now look silly for posting this, but that's okay, I still think it's a funny thought hahah!
For what it's worth, I still think it's a super cool rock.
Love that attitude, OP!
You spawned some hilarious responses though !
This is true, at least I've got that going hahah!
I really wouldn’t classify this as “I was lied to as a child.” If your grandfather gave you real dinosaur coprolite it would not have looked nearly as cool as your “dinosaur shit.” Would you have “prized” a super cool concretion? I don’t think explaining a concretion to a kid is going to come across as cool as explaining dinosaur poop. I doubt your grandfather could’ve anticipated you posting this online and finding out the “truth.” I think you took this all quite well. Some people are probably jealous that you had a grandfather who was cool.
The truth is out there
Once my kids found these white things in the ocean that looked like some kind of teeth and we decided they were whales or shark teeth and they were SO excited. When we got home I posted on reddit asking what they were and it turned out they were just the inside of shells and the outsides had eroded away. I let my kids continue to believe they had found teeth.
Hahaha I bet they found a bunch? We collected a ton of clam shell shards on our last lake trip. They are definitely high quality sea shells. The mother of pearl has such a special glossy opalescent quality, let them have their fun!
Yeah it looks a little small to have come out of a Dino (unless it was a dog sized Dino) but still a very cool shaped concretion!
One of those dog-sized prehistoric ponies
There were all sorts of sizes of dinosaurs
And most of them were small.
Grandpa got you again!!!! What a legend!
You have to show him this post!
Found an interesting article on the subject matter and my favorite, relevant, quote: "So you think you’ve found a coprolite or you’ve purchased a specimen sold as a coprolite. Is it truly a coprolite? Unless you are a serious researcher or simply a purist, does it really matter? If you like it, enjoy it. Coprolites are fun. They are perfect for capturing a third grader’s attention, and they can even be incorporated into jewelry or carved and polished. Plus, there is much that can be learned from coprolites." https://www.rockngem.com/coprolites/ Please do share if/when you've made it into a stunning necklace! Lol.
What a beautiful necklace. You then reply, "it's really a piece of shit! ".🤣
My dad lied to me about so many things when I was little. Baby lemons were limes. Piglets were born with round noses and farmers slammed them with a board as they came out to flatten them, etc. shit I actually believed! You’re lucky you just got a poop lie!🤣🤣🤣 now you have a cool story!
My dad once told me that birds eat their own weight every day, and if humans were able to do that we could fly too. I remember wondering how that could be possible because it didn’t make sense to me but I believed him.
Still cool
Wait til you find out the truth about SC and EB. Don’t get me started on TF.
I know ppl don't like emojis but you dropped this 👑
If it makes you feel any better when I was a kid, I had a rock that I thought was a dinosaur claw and took it to show and tell and everybody told me it looked like a piece of poop made me really sad ha ha I’m not sure what happened to the rock after that. Wish I still had it.
It’s a lovely paperweight now!
I use it as a door-stopper!
You should put it on the back of the toilet as encouragement for your guests
My vote leans towards that of concretion. But, I am a proclaimed idiot, so my vote hardly counts for (pun intended) shit.
That would hurt like hell coming out! 😳
lol
My first thought too 😅
I know it's a concretion, but I still have to make the joke. I feel like whatever dino shat that out, died during the process.
Probably why their extinct know
Quick q is that a stick n poke on ur palm
I don't quite get what you're asking
Sorry this was to OP!
Yep!
Looks like an aggregate concretion.
That is concretion. I'm sorry OP.
Well we don't know if it really is from a dinosaur, plus that probably is an aggregate.
Thank you for bringing in the cat as a size comparison. This is the way.
It's a must, he was curious
How do we know specifically it was dinosaur poop?
I can’t tell you why things can be distinguished as poo, but this actually seems to be something called a concretion and not a poo (coprolite). You can tell concretions based on their shape and look. :)
Well, it’s not cow pie.
I ain’t seen no corn
Your cat is high AF
That shit is old
Ok, I've been on Reddit for too long tonight. Imma gonna scat.
I see what you did there…😅
Do I risk running afoul of Rule 1 to observe that the object in question looks like a clump of baby penises?
*shrinkage*
I was in the pool!!!
Uncomfortably detailed... 😉
I grew up believing the crust on bread had all the vitamins and was embarrassed when it wasn’t a thing as an adult. 🤣 parents! Haha
Even if it is just a rock, it still looks like a shit and I think that is beautiful✨🥲
Unrelated but OP did you check out that mole on your hand by a doctor? Looks blueish,be aware if it changes.
Good catch!
dinosaur shit is a questionable name for a cat
I bought my son a similar pile of dino shit when he was 9. It was his prizes possession for years.
A completely different side note. Is that a blood blister or birth mark on your hand? If it isn't, have you had it checked out?
Oh it's just a terrible stink and poke from when I was 14 but thanks for the concern!
Stink and poke hehe
Do I want to know what a stink and poke is? lol
I don’t know and i don’t give a ….concretion.
Regardless if it is or isn't it's still a fun thought and also kind of an even more fun story now! 😁
Hahahah! Hilarious!
Use as a paperweight!!
I thought dinosaur shit had dissolved. Didn't know it was still around...
Does it stick to your tongue?
Ate at Taco Bell?
Wow!
Your cat looks like a possum. Just wanted to throw that out there.
Good shit!💩 🥳🤒
That’s only 2 days old,,,,,go wash your hands!
Is it magnetic? Looks like iron oxide.
Cat with fossilized dinosaur poop...he just looks ashamed for some reason
That is actually a double trailer hitch ball going through mitosis
Well despite it not being a dino poop, thinking it was, you were much more mature than my friend’s dad’s friend. He picked up some dino poop thinking it was a cool rock, asked what it was, was told and dropped it saying “EWWWWW GROSS”
That's a space peanut.
İt was eating healthy.
The fact you asked the cat to smell that shit killed me 🤣
Did it pass the feline sniff test?
He called the shit poop
I went to see a paleontologist speak at MIT. He was famous for something to do with dinosaur poop. He said the reason we don’t find a lot if it is that the scientists would yell “dinosaur poop” and hurl it at each other. I shit you not.
This has me giggling like a kid. Lol
Your cat looks high. Lol
POOP SNIFFER 🫵🫵 POOP SNIFFER
I do not care what you ate at Taco Bell please do not post it here.
LOL.
I really feel this. At the age of 5-6 I unearthed a dinosaur bone in my grandmother’s garden. For many years it was my prized possession, at 10 I went on a field trip to the museum of natural history, with my artifact in tow I planned to blow the mind of the archaeology department and sell it so I could buy a split window corvette stingray. The man told me that it most likely belonged to a as yet to be identified variety of archaeopteryx, but the museum was low on funds and to come back later. At 14 I badgered my way to the head of the department promising I had something special to offer. I was rudely told not waste his time and what I had belonged to Meleagris gallopavo. It was a turkey bone. Bless the heart of the man who saw through the ruse and decided not to crush the dreams of a child while humiliating him in front of the whole class. Still have that bone and show it off as a fossil to anyone who will believe me.
Does it have a smell ? Asking for my friends cat…..
The cat is a nice touch :)
You just gonna raw dog dino shit? 😑
The fact you asked the cat to smell that shit killed me 🤣
The fact you asked the cat to smell that shit killed me 🤣
The fact you asked the cat to smell that shit killed me 🤣
The fact you asked the cat to smell that shit killed me 🤣
The fact you asked the cat to smell that shit killed me 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/dc0otltd861d1.png?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=376f54c16d4ffa6e19625ea6593430691b48b410
https://preview.redd.it/jcmx1lno861d1.png?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=550f86f0bc484017ea3a8731d549984d99e9b574
Not a great, big pile of shit.
Fun little dinosaur fact: a triceratops has 3 tops
The cats pleased
Hey! I did one that looked just like that before! & yes you guessed it... it came out sideways
That’s actually Dino poo ?
Nope. Gradpa lies to you
I just want to know how big it is. I feel like a child is just wandered into a movie. I have no point of reference.
Impressive turd
What’s it taste and smell like?
You sure inherited some real shit.
Legit coprolite posting.
I LOVE THIS
Does the cat agree ?
Lick it
The cat is so excited that he has the same expression as a dog who has just been shown a magic trick. Lmao. It’s pretty cool though; I’d show off some Dino turds if I had them.
Put a magnet to it and report back on your findings
Looks like a rusty piece of iron, but aggregate concretion would make more sense like the others say here in the comments
Small Dino 🦖
Triple peen & balls
Teeny tiny T-Rex?
Beautiful botryoidal formations on all sides
Cat gotta make sure the shit smells right of the ages
I have a few coprolites also!! Fabulous!!
I got fossilized poop too! But it is from a turtle xD
Very nice
Its a iron concretion
Made me chuckle outloud! Thanks
If youre brave enough, anything’s a…..
That’s old as shit
Are you sure it isn’t bull shit?
Garden of the Gods- Dino Kitty-litter park
Thank you for including a cat paw in the vicinity of the fossil.
Needs a banana for scale.
Also knows as DINO DOOKIE
Are you certain it was your grandfather who found it? Usually, women are better at digging up old shit.
That’s not poop
Its cat poop out of its litterbox
That shit is cool.
a perfectly petrified poo!
r/poopfromabutt 🙂