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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Pecopteris sp. Ambridge, PA Glenshaw Formation Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Ambridge, PA Glenshaw Formation Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Ambridge, PA Glenshaw Formation Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Wood Fragment Ambridge, PA Glenshaw Formation Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Neuropteris ovata Ambridge, PA Glenshaw Formation Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian) -
I was just collecting out at the Ambridge site over the weekend and among the hundreds of ferns I found, I pulled out this piece which appears to be rolled up one. It especially seems like a fern given that there’s a Calamites stem just to the bottom right. I posted on the Reddit fossil ID forum and people are saying it’s a goniatite but I’m really not seeing it and I also can’t find anything online saying something like that would even be there. I would love some insight as to what it could be regardless, because I’ve been to this site a few times now and haven’t found something like this before so it’s probably pretty rare regardless.
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Just curious if these are fern seeds??? During the summer, I slipped over to Ambridge, Pa. to collect a few ferns. Multiple nodules were discovered and the more I thought about it, the more I became suspicious of "seed". Thanks for looking. I am very uneducated when it comes to plants. Mike
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I was rooting around in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Beaver County yesterday and found some interesting plant fossils. They are Pennsylvanian and out of the Glenshaw Formation. Not sure if they're identifiable or if I would need a microscope to ID. Any help is appreciated.
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Just finished prepping out this Calamites, found a month ago. It was large and colorful, worthy of posting a picture. It came from Ambridge, Pennsylvania. This is mahoning shale/ Pennsylvanian. I will include a few of the other finds too. A close up showing the details present. Unidentifiable twigs and small branches were common Occasional seed pods were found Fern leaves of multiple species were easy to find. Not the best one found. More of a typical one at this site. The iron present stains things, producing colorful patterns in the matrix and fossils.
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Found out I had fossils down the street from my house and did some searching for a variety of plant fossils. This was found in a road cut along the Ohio river near Ambridge/Aliquippa, PA and the fossil layer is the Mahoning Shale. Most of what we found were tree ferns, calamites and lycopods. We had some great success and it was great to find these right down the street! Most were easy to ID with help from the Fossil Guy site. But we can't find any info on the attached. Any ideas are welcome!
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This is a trip I took last year as we decided to make the trek to Washington DC for our family trip. I would definitely recommend a trip there for the museums alone if anyone has been thinking of going. Even on our non fossil trips, I try to plan a fossil excursion or 2. We got to the site around 11am, and it was quite hot as it is out in the sun. I don't have any pictures of the site itself, but you basically park on the side of the road, and hop over a barrier, and you are right there. Thank you @minnbuckeye for recommendations on parking as safety is always paramount when the family is with me. Thank you to @TNGray for his wonderful webpage once again in helping me find some easily accessible sites for the family. I only got to spend about a half hour at the site as the family was wanting to get moving home, but here's about half the fossils I brought home.
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Mystery Carboniferous Plant - just another fern or something else?
cameronsfossilcollection posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found this in some Pennsylvanian aged shale in Ambridge, PA at the well known mahoning exposure. It doesn’t have visible pinnae like the ferns I’ve found in the area, but it could just be a strange preservation. Any ideas - is this just a fern? Thanks!
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It was about a month ago that I attended a wedding in Ohio. There was a free afternoon for me to do a little exploring. So I took a short one hour road trip to Ambridge, Pa. I had no tools to use other than a carpenter's hammer that I borrowed. Had I been prepared to split shale with the proper equipment, my results would have been much better. Pennsylvanian, Dutch Creek Formation flora exists in the shale cliffs across the Ohio River from Ambridge, along Route 51( a 4 lane highway) as you cross the bridge. It is a very safe area to collect since barriers are in place to prevent rock slides onto the road. This keeps you separated from the heavy traffic on the road. Here are typical fossils found at this site.
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