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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends July 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Pinus sp. and Pinus brevis cones - Miocene - Chłapowo, Poland 2. Flexicalymene croneisi trilobite - Ordovician, Lindsay Fm, Hillier Member - Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada 3. Donaciinae subfamily (aquatic leaf beetle) elytron imprint - Miocene - Juodikiai Quarry, Klaipeda district, Western Lithuania 4. Apiaceae indet. (carrot family) seed - Miocene - Juodikiai Quarry, Klaipeda district, western Lithuania. 5. Menuites ammonite in bryozoan colony - Late Cretaceous, Wenonah Formation - Monmouth County, New Jersey 6. Eurypterus remipes eurypterid - Late Silurian, Phelps Member, Bertie Group - Herkimer County, New York 7. Harpoceras and Dactylioceras gracile ammonites - Lower Jurassic, Upper Lias - Sandsend, near Whitby in Yorkshire, England 8. Periarchus pileussinensis sand dollars with Chlamys scallop fragment - Eocene, Tivola Limestone (~35 mya) - Perry, Georgia 9. Chlamys spillmani clinchfieldensis scallop - Eocene, Tivola Limestone (~35 mya) - Perry, Georgia 10. Crickites sp. goniatite - Late Devonian, Frasnian - Chimay, Belgium 11. Eldredgeops rana trilobite with Stereolasma rectum horn coral - Devonian - Hamburg, New York 12. Olenoides nevadensis with associated Elrathia kingii trilobites - Cambrian, Wheeler Shale - U-dig quarry near Delta, Utah
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Honestly don’t know too much about them. My recently deceased grandfather wanted me to have them. I know some of them are seed fern fossils and honestly don’t know the rest
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This item was uncovered while excavating my basement in 2007. After watching a series of videos from the Illinois Geological Survey last year, I believe it is petrified wood of some early tree's growing in Northern Illinois between glacial periods. it weighs 17.2 pounds and its about 10 inches tall. It has a large flat area and another smaller flat area on its opposite. I don't see rings as you might see in tree stumps which is concerning. Rather it has vertical lines on most of it sides with interesting crevasses like an old tree limb might have. It is appears broken at the top with an almost rotted core look to it. Can you help me identify and age this item?
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Help me identify this early devonian fossil. I think it may be a cooksonia.
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Okay so I found this interesting specimen in Ithica New York. The formation was early devonian. Is this a cooksonia fossil? On the other side of this rock you can see another fossilzed plant as seen on the front but much smaller and less complete. Below the penny is the most complete out of the three. To the right of the penny you can see a little bit of another. Thank you for taking time reading this. (If it does turn out to be a cooksonia its sadly missing the sprouts)
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A friend found this near Sonora, TX. No idea what it is, any help would be much appreciated. I do not know age or formation as of yet. Thanks
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Hello. Is it a branch with leaf-scars and cone scars or a cones? I hope you will understand me Late triassic, Russia, Chelyabinsk region.
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Two items from my recent collecting trip. Carboniferous - Silesian Was thinking Asterophyllites Any ideas? Specimen 1: Specimen 2
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Went looking on a old pit spoil that is slowly giving up it's nodules,the site is in the British coal measures of Derbyshire as with Mazon Creek it is well overgrown but the nodules here are not easy to find ....Yet! These are 2 nodules from the spoil that i'm sure will one day give up it's treasures. Asterophyllites sp Lycopsids Cheers John
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends June 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Mecaster scutiger echinoid anoxic mortality cluster - Cretaceous, Cenomanian (Tentúgal Fm, I level) - Montemor-o-Velho, Coimbra, Portugal 2. Stromatoporid (with bonus nautiloid) - Likely Devonian (formation uncertain) - Champaign, Illinois 3. Pleurodictyum americanum (tabulate coral) attached to a crinoid calyx (Megistocrinus?) - Middle Devonian, Moscow Formation - Livingston County, New York 4. Echinocaris punctata phyllocarid - Middle Devonian (Givetian), Moscow formation, Hamilton group - Madison county, New York 5. Triarthrus eatoni trilobite (ventral view with eggs) - Ordovician - Beecher's Beds, Walcott Quarry, near Rome, New York 6. Psammichnites? ichnofossil, molluscan feeding trail - Carboniferous - Kilkee, Ireland 7. Coeloma vigil crab - Eocene - Provence, France 8. Cenocerus nautiloid - Early Jurassic - Mappleton, Yorkshire, UK
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Hi, I am after a bit of advice please. Finally got out on a collecting trip at the dump of an abandoned coal mine. Plenty of plant material but it is very very fragile. Some of the pieces literally disintegrated as I lifted them up. So my initial thought is that with the specimens I have, how do I go about preserving them - prevent further cracking and flaking. I will tackle the broken ones at a later stage. The specimen in the photo is roughly 10 cm. Most of them are similar size or smaller. Any advice appreciated
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Hi everybody, My name is Jacob, and I was encouraged by a few members at the Penn Dixie event last weekend to join the forum. I've been fossil hunting for the last 7 years and am looking to expand my search outside of shallow marine invertebrates to collect some carboniferous plant fossils. I've looked through some older fossil guides, and a lot of the referenced localities are either closed off or overgrown. So just wanted to see if anyone had any advice or places they would be willing to share. I did have a lot of fun at the Penn Dixie event, and it was great meeting/catching up with people there. Brought home a few bugs too, but now I have to make time to see if they are trilobites or just trilo-bits. Looking forward to future discussions with the members of this forum.
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So I was rooting again around in the garage and found a couple plates I had bought a few years back and never tracked down an ID for. Tentative provenance was Paleocene from Montana. I found this article recently and was wondering if it could be one of the genera/sp described or one of the other genera mentioned in the discussion section. Trapa, Trapago, Fortuna, Quereuxia. STOCKEY, R. A., AND G. W. ROTHWELL. 1997. The aquatic angiosperm Trapago angulata from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) St. Mary River Formation of southern Alberta. Int. J. Pl. Sci. 158: 83-94. Can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240563741_The_Aquatic_Angiosperm_Trapago_angulata_from_the_Upper_Cretaceous_Maastrichtian_St_Mary_River_Formation_of_Southern_Alberta I also was looking at the USGS pub 375 https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0375/report.pdf My plates have a number of leaflets and fragments with very little venation visible and in a pale gray and a light pink color in a very fine matrix.....Many of the leaflets have small teeth... Plates: Crenulations Leaflets and partial venation Anyone have any expertise in these? Looks like the authors were indicating more study is needed in this area of aquatic plants--that was 20 years ago. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Regards, Chris
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I have recently obtained this Pennsylvanian Fossil Fern - Schuylkill County. Leaves on both sides of the plate. I have read that some plants on slate can peel. Is that something that tends to happen with this material? If so, what would I use to prevent this from happening? Thanks
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From a long abandoned bluestone quarry in NE Pennsylvania. Devonian, Catskill formation. Found by my sister-in-law, who was really looking for live birds! Ideas?
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Yes, you read that right. I have a piece of amber with an impression, not an inclusion. I got a small order of Indonesian amber in on Monday & 1 piece had an interesting impression. The size of the impression is 2.5 cm wide x 3 cm tall & curved in an almost 1/2 circle as you will see by the pics. I'm seeing what appears to be a leaf of some sort, veins & all. I've never heard of an impression in amber before, not saying they don't exist, just that I had never heard of one. Indonesian amber is Early Miocene @ 10 to 23 MYO if that helps any. Pics 1 & 2 show the impression, 3 & 4 show the curvature. This particular amber type tends to be called zebra or cloudy amber for obvious reasons. The white areas are who knows how many tiny air bubbles trapped in the resin. This is (obviously) one piece I'm not going to be doing anything with. It's staying as is. I'm now going to search for impressions in amber on the web (this should be fun)..
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As a child, like all children, I began to get involved in dinosaurs. In a small provincial town, there was only one library with a one book about dinosaurs. Every weekend, when my peers were playing games, I spent a couple of hours with my mother in the library-drawing dinosaurs in my album, and wrote in a notebook facts about them. Time passed I grew up, but passion for paleontology has not gone anywhere. It became one of my Hobbies. My opportunities have expanded and it was possible to go to paleontological travel or to buy fossil. My first sample in making a replica. It was very interesting to do.
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April 2019 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends May 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Angiospirifer sp. brachiopod - Tournaisian, Lowermost Carboniferous - Juodikiai Quarry, Klaipeda District, Western Lithuania 2. Angiospirifer sp. brachiopod - Tournaisian, Lowermost Carboniferous - Juodikiai Quarry, Klaipeda District, Western Lithuania 3. Petrified wood with pyrite - Gault Clay Formation, Lower Cretaceous - Compton Bay, Isle of Wight, England 4. Pachydiscus ammonite (with bonus inoceramid) - Ozan Formation, Cretaceous (84-71 Ma) - North Sulphur River, Texas 5. Nahecaris frankei (phyllocarid) - Emsian (Early Devonian) - Burg-Reuland, Belgium 6. cf. Bethanyphullum sp. rugose (horn) coral - Silica Shale Formation, Middle Devonian: Erian - Paulding, Ohio 7. (likely) Titanites sp ammonite - Kimmeridge Clay, Jurassic - West We are, Isle of Portland, UK 8. Sinespinaspis markhami trilobite - Cotton Formation, 435 Ma - Cotton Hill Quarry, NSW, Australia 9. Undescribed Calymenid trilobite - Gunningbland Formation, 450 Ma - Gunningbland, NSW, Australia 10. Crinoid cluster matrix - Carboniferous, Tournaisian - Kitab Geological Reserve, Uzbekistan 11. Tabulate coral - Devonian, Fammenian - Kitab Geological Reserve, Uzbekistan 12. Aphelaspis brachyphasis trilobite - Late Cambrian Conasauga Formation (~500 Ma) - Chatsworth, Georgia
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Hello all. I had recently made a post needing to repair a fossil of ferns (Lygenopteris hoeninghousi) and an unknown branch. It is now repaired and I wanted to get a proper ID on the branch specifically and see what you all think it is from. Do you believe it is also from Lygenopteris hoeninghousi? I think the preserved hair like spines along the branch are particularly interesting. It was found in a coal mine in Alabama and is in shale. Thank you all.
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This was given to me by my father in law 7 years ago which he had found around 20 years before next to a creek on their property here in Lawrence County Tennessee. It had set in their garden for years before they decided to sell and I had asked for it along with several other oddly shaped rocks and boulders for our garden. Recently, had a friend suggest that it could be a fossil of either a plant or some kind of reptile? Either way I have no clue as to what it is. The pictures were taken on our deck, the deck boards are 5-1/2" wide to draw your scale from. It's fairly heavy and could probably use some kind of cleaning? Thanks!
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Winner of the March 2019 Invertebrate/Plant Fossil Of The Month
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The winner of the March 2019 IPFOTM goes to... Calamites sp horsetail tree trunk segment - Pennsylvanian - Southeast Oklahoma Congrats to @MSirmon!!! -
Hello all. I recently received a fossil branch in delicate shale. It wasn't packaged well and arrived broken. It is a shame. I want to know what the best way is to repair it and hide the cracks. The first picture is what it looked like before it was sent to me. Thank you! ps: if anyone knows what it is an ID would be appreciated as well, but my primary concern is the best way to repair it.
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I found this today in the Durham coal field, UK (upper Carboniferous). I usually collect in the Yorkshire coal field, and although this one site is obviously not representative of the whole of the Durham coal field, the Durham coal field seems notably different to the Yorkshire coal field, with some rocks similar to ones at a site where I have collected in the Fife coal field, and some of the nodules similar to the nodules found at some sites in the Lancashire coal field. Interestingly, there were some fish fossils in the same blocks as plants, and there were some large fish fragments in the same layers as foraminifera. In the Yorkshire coal field, layers containing foraminifera usually only contain very small fish fossils. My best finds today were a Rhizodont scale in a block containing plant fossils, a small fish tooth, an Elonichthys scale, a Megalichthys scale and some well preserved plant fossils. Does anyone know what this is? I’m 99% sure it’s a plant fossil. I think I have seen a similar example before, but I don’t recall where I saw it. My first thought was that it’s an arthropod fragment, though I think this is very unlikely. Thanks, Daniel
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This should be an easy one for the plant people here. I'm looking for some suggested id's for this Pennsylvanian/Bashkirian/Namurian plant fragment. Length is 10cm or 4 inches. I find lots of fragments of these which I usually ignore but haven't seen the bifurcating pattern in the lower part of the picture before. I hope that will make id easier.
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This is from Xingyi of Guizhou in which Keichousaurus is found. It looks like a plant fossil and at the back is fossil of crinoids. Any idea if it is a plant fossil and what plant is that?
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At 1400 hours on 10/13/2018, I collected a number of specimens from the Tullock Member of the Fort Union Formation. The location is about a mile north of Miles City. The rock is fine silty clay with leaves and twigs mixed into the sediment. Above the strata is a layer of cattails forming a matted layer. Source for leaf identification came from Reproductive and Vegetative Organs of Browniea gen. n. (Nyssaceae) from the Paleocene of North America Article in International Journal of Plant Sciences, February 2007.
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