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My main interest is fossil fish, but here in this album, you will only find fossil plants from Solnhofen, Messel, Liaoning, Willershausen, Mazon Creek, Monte Bolca and other sites. Enjoy!
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Unidentified specimens - Plants? Washington Quimper Sandstone.
crabfossilsteve posted a topic in Fossil ID
I collected this many years ago in the Quimper Sandstone in WA and have not been able to identify it. It appears to be a plant structure where the top splays out into a few "branches" with some lobed structure on the top. Reminds me somewhat of a lotus top where the flower would develop. Ok, all you plant guys and others, let me know if you know what it is or if you have some ideas. The specimen is about 7 CM including the top piece. Thanks
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late carboniferous/early permian, north china, plants for ID.
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So my son and I have been looking almost exclusively for signs of vertebrate life in Pennsylvania and almost exclusively and obviously in road cuts. My goal this year is to expand a little. I would like to visit Gilboa, site of the earliest known forest! That part of eastern NY state was the shoreline of an inland sea in the Appalachian basin during the middle Devonian. Many field trips are described here of fossils from that inland sea but almost exclusively invertebrate. I know in the past fossils have been found but I'm wondering if anything recent? I would assume if someone has a site they probably don't want to share specifics but just looking for what if anything people have found?
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Hello everyone, and hope you've all had a good day so far. I am currently having a break after putting most of my bookcase together. Here are some fossil plants found in the Triassic layers of the Sydney Basin I would like identified if possible. As before, I would like the most specific identification possible, but don't mind genus or clade names if they'd be more accurate. I know the general location for these, so don't worry about that. If you need more photographs for a proper identification, I can take more in a couple of hours or tomorrow. Specimen 1: Shale plant fossil This fossil was found by a friend in the shale rock layer in the Northern Beaches region. This makes it Triassic in age. I read this document (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gregory-Retallack/publication/241677571_Geological_excursion_guide_to_the_sea_cliffs_north_of_Sydney/links/55d2119008ae0b8f3ef776a9/Geological-excursion-guide-to-the-sea-cliffs-north-of-Sydney.pdf) and after comparing the plant to various images on the document, I came to the conclusion that the plant was a specimen of the seed fern Dicroidium. Is this an accurate identification? Specimen 2: Plant Assortment This assortment of various plant fossils was found by another person I used to know in the Sydney Basin. I assume it is Triassic, as the vast majority of exposed sedimentary rocks in Sydney are of that age, although it might be Permian. I do not know the exact region. There seem to be multiple different plants on the slab, and they seem to be more poorly preserved than the shale layer plant. Does anyone know what they are? Also, do any of you have any tips for getting better images? If I take any more, I'll probably use my SLR camera, as my phone's camera is terrible. Thanks for the help! Edit: Changed the title to make it more obvious this is a new thread.
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Various fossil plants from my collection
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Yesterday we had a day in the Southern Highlands region of NSW, Australia looking for Triassic fish fossils but had time to check out a nearby site we were told about. The Cenozoic plant fossils from this area have been known for decades, although no work has been done on them yet so I'm not sure how old they are. Our fossil insect friend has been interested in this site for a while and he tracked down a property with a great deposit of the material, here we spent an hour or so and found some great specimens! I look forward to revisiting the site and collecting more. These specimens will be given to the Australian Museum collection so they can be worked on (hopefully) one day. I'm still photographing the rest of the specimens we collected but here are three for now. The first is this weevil(?) elytron: A tiny conifer cone: A complete beetle(?), I prepared what I could but I'm not game to go any further without magnifying equipment. More to come!
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400 million-year-old fossil reveals the evolution of Fibonacci spirals in plants
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
400 million-year-old fossil reveals the evolution of Fibonacci spirals in plants Tejasri Gururaj, June 19, 2023 The paywalled paper is: Turner, H.A., Humpage, M., Kerp, H. and Hetherington, A.J., 2023. Leaves and sporangia developed in rare non-Fibonacci spirals in early leafy plants. Science, 380(6650), pp.1188-1192. Yours, Paul H.-
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Hi, i've found plant fossils on a Carboniferous site in the Aspe valley, near Etsaut. I thought those could be sigillariae. What do you think ? Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4, here i think i have some calamites, my question is more about what is seen at the upper left corner, calamites too ?
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Last week I was hunting in my usual location in Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Glenshaw Formation) and found that several of my specimens have splotches of what appears to be pyrite crystals. With some of the broken fossils I could see that even the insides contained gold-colored pyrite. On the other side of these plates were what looked like rootlets covered in a pale green mineral. Is this pale green mineral pyrite as well? Is there some way I could test this? Thanks for the help.
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Howdy! I'm finding some beautiful stuff digging in the Glenshaw Formation of Allegheny and Beaver counties. Hoping to find out/confirm what they are. The limestone finds I believe are from the Brush Creek Limestone. As usual, all help is greatly appreciated, thanks! Side view of Wilkingia? Never saw round leaves before Spiropteris? Sigillaria bark? Some sort of bone or root of a Petalodus tooth?
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Carboniferous Arthropleura, plants, insect wing...!
oscarinelpiedras posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
That day was so exciting, because I found a really nice specimen of Mixoneura wagneri fern, a specie that isn't very commoon in the area. And the color is... I had the luck of found some Arthropleura armored pieces too (I have to clean and glue them) and a small part of a cockroach wing. Terrestrial fauna are very rare in Spain... I found It on a restored coal mine from upper Carboniferous, Stephanien B of NW Spain.
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Before I post a trip report, I was hoping to get a few IDs that are giving me some trouble. First up are possible insects. 1. Crane Fly?? 2. positive and negative. Bee?? 3. Has the termite feel!! 4. Another Crane Fly Now what appear to me to be plant oriented material. 5. I am torn between three leaf clover (but how would that end up in a lake), or a flower, or a seed pod cluster. 6. Total unknown 7. Finally this confusing specimen. Great symmetry so must be something!
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Found in the stone steps at estabrooke park quarried from the Devonian Milwaukee formation.
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Hello everyone, I have recently received an old collection from an old married couple who weren't interested in it anymore. Some of the items were purchased in 1905! They got them from the man's father who was Dutch. Unfortunately, many of the fossils did not come with their labels, and the labels I do have are written in Dutch, and in cursive... I will be posting most of the fossils on the forum through the next few days in hopes of getting some id's, locations, ages, as well as any other useful information. If the photos aren't clear enough just tell me the number so that I can send a better image. Here are the plants. I assume most of them come from a coal mine. #1 #2 There was some writing on the back #3 #4 #5.5 (Edit: accidentally added 5 twice) #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 The next two look like calamites #24 #25 Looks like sigillaria #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 I think this is the wrong label, it appears to say something like "lava from Vesuvius" #31 #32 #33 #34
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Retallack, G.J. 2022 Damaged Dickinsonia Specimens Provide Clues to Ediacaran Vendobiont Biology. PLoS ONE, 17(6):e0269638 pp. 1-26 OPEN ACCESS PDF
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Howdy! Just posting some of my finds for ID. Feel free to correct or specify. I can provide dimensions if needed as it's hard to get good pics with a measure of some of these. The first two look like Asterophyllites to me. The third, fourth and fifth, I'd guess Sphenopteroids (the fourth is only 1 cm from top to bottom). The sixth I think is Annularia. The rest I believe are Neuropteroids.
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From the album: Catskill Formation PA fossils
Plants from Red Hill, including Archaeopteris, Rhacophyton, and Ozinachsonia-
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Hello all, I have some excess ferns from St. Clair that I am looking to trade for other fossils. I am happy to do individual trades or group trades (will update this to reflect what is and is not available) I am interested in anything and everything fossil related. Some things that interest me (but not limited to): Dinosaur material (Moroccan specimens are welcome) Reptile material Trilobites Display cases / stands Other offers are welcome PACollection.pdf See attached PDF for ferns currently available I am happy to coat the ferns in a clear coat or leave in the raw state at traders request. Below picture is an example of raw state (top) and clear coated (bottom)
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Could these be fossils of some sort (plants perhaps?)
Matt-In-Deutschland posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi All and happy new year, I'm very much a noob with a budding interest so please be gentle lol. I found these on a walk a little while ago very close to where I live in Lower Saxony, Germany. They were half sticking out of the side of a hill that has had a path cut into it. I wonder if you can tell me if they are fossils and if so what they might be. Best Wishes Matt
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These rocks were found in a valley of Lhasa, Tibet Province, China. According to the the local geological literature, the exposed strata here belongs to the Lower Cretaceous. In the first three pics, some lines seem to converge to a single stem, and the ends of each line happen to form a fan-shape. Sorry to say that the rock is not that intact and the pictures are not that clear. I wonder if this could be a piece of fossil？ Or anybody has seen some fossils like that？ And there‘re still another two rocks, which have interesting lines on them. Maybe these're fossils? By the way, I have another question here: If I get some fossils from outdoors, how can I clean it or preserve it? Is washing with water acceptable? Or I can only use the dry brushes softly? I'm so bothered by that. If anyone can give me some guide or just share your opinion, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
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A few weeks ago @Jeffrey P and I met up in Eastern Pennsylvania to collect plant material in the Late Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation. We started our day at Centralia and then made our way to another site. I have visited Centralia a few times now but Jeff had never been there before. Our hope was to find Jeff a nice Trigonocarpus seed but unfortunately our efforts did not come up with anything. The pickings at Centralia were rather slim. However, we did see in-situ a large segment of Stigmaria ficoides root with rootlets. I ended up only keeping a few finds. The first is this Sphenopteris sp. I also kept this plate with several Lepidodendron branches After about an hour we made our way to the second site and spent the rest of the day there. I love to visit this site because I seem to keep finding something new on every visit. This time around I decided to break down a huge block and ended up with a lot of exciting finds. Lepidostrobophyllum lanceolatum Cross section of a Calamites cistii trunk showing the cell structure Asterophyllites longifolius Asterophyllites sp. Terminal Shoots Asterophyllites sp. (including this really big Calamites branch) Sphenophyllum emarginatum Cyclopteris fimbriata(?) Cyclopteris sp. I have found other seed ferns at the site before, but Laveineopteris rarinervis is definitely the most common fern. It also seems to be the only fern of which you will find blades. While splitting the large block down, I ended up breaking on a plane that exposed multiple Laveineopteris rarinervis blades. Unfortunately the largest blade was cut off by the end of the rock. Perhaps against my better judgment I decided to carry the huge plate out. Even after cutting off the excess rock at home it is still very heavy. And just because it would not be a hunt in the Llewellyn Formation without me finding something that I totally don't know what it is, here is a mystery plant.
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Multiple Carboniferous plants and a possible Climacograptus?
Nathanielv99 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Need help identifying these. Found all of them in or directly around the same shale pile in a creek bank in Logan ,WV. Only About 2.5 hours of looking and there’s still plenty I haven’t gotten to yet! I’d definitely love to know if I have any rare finds so far!
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Llewellyn Formation Plants of Pennsylvania
Images added to a gallery album owned by historianmichael in Member Collections
Fossil plants collected by the author in several trips to various exposures of the Late Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation in Pennsylvania's "Coal Country" -
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Well-preserved fossil plants found under Greenland ice sheet
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Top-secret Cold War military project found perfectly preserved fossil plants under Greenland ice By Mindy Weisberger, Live Science, March 2021 Andrew J. Christ, Paul R. Bierman, Joerg M. Schaefer, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jørgen P. Steffensen, Lee B. Corbett, Dorothy M. Peteet, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Eric J. Steig, Tammy M. Rittenour, Jean-Louis Tison, Pierre-Henri Blard, Nicolas Perdrial, David P. Dethier, Andrea Lini, Alan J. Hidy, Marc W. Caffee, John Southon, 2021. A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2021, 118 (13) e2021442118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021442118 Yours, Paul H.-
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