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Northeast Alabama. Pottsville Formation. Beautiful (and tiny) fern fossils I found a couple of days ago. I would love some help with an ID (or even someone to point me to a guide)! Photos are from my cell phone, but I plan on taking more with a better camera this week
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QUARTETnary - A card game about the geological time scale
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L.S., Wanted to raise some awareness on TFF because I expect many here will simply love this: A good friend of mine, Iris van Zelst (geophysicist at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin) has developed this really nice card game centred around the geological time scale: QUARTETnary The gameplay is based on the classic game Quartets (similar to Go Fish and Happy Families), where players try to collect as many sets of four cards as they can. In QUARTETnary, each of the sets represents four major events that took place during a specific geological time period. To win the game, you need to create the most complete timeline of Earth history, all the way from its formation 4.567 billion years ago to the appearance of us humans. The cards have been designed by Lucia Perez-Diaz (Earth scientist and freelance illustrator from the UK). The illustrations look amazing and I really like that they adhered to the official colour scheme of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Iris sent me this nice set of cards for the Proterozoic: The game includes 15 sets of four cards in total (many featuring fossils): one each for the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons, and one each for the 12 periods of the Phanerozoic. I expect QUARTETnary will become a really fun way to learn about and memorize the different geological units and major events in Earth history. Kind regards, Tim
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From the album: Invertebrates
Typhloesus wellsi Melton & Scott, 1973 Early Carboniferous Serpukhovian Heath Formation Bear Gulch Montana USA In the beginning, it used to be believed that Typhloesus were conodont animals, a group of extinct agnathan vertebrates. The conodont teeth however were actually located in the gut contents of the Typhloesus, meaning that while it wasn't a conodont, they were a part of its diet. A new paper published revealed several potential mollusk-like features of the animal. -
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Acanthodes lundi Zidek, 1980 Lower Carboniferous Serpukhovian Heath Formation Bear Gulch Montana USA -
This was found in the Carboniferous limestone of the Malahide formation , east coast Dublin Ireland,
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This was found in the Carboniferous limestone of the Malahide formation , east coast Dublin Ireland, I have no idea what it is, hope somebody can help
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Taking advantage of the good weather and less traffic on the I-95 because of Super Bowl Sunday, I and my husband decided to head south to North Attleboro, MA to explore the Pennsylvanian age plant fossils from possibly the Rhode Island/Wamsutta Formation. We drove to a park near the site and hiked about a mile through the pine forest and reached the outcrop which has expanded into a shale pit. The specimens here are preserved in great condition and are abundant. The pine forest we walked through. The shale pit full of plant fossils. Here's some finds from my trip. I have tried my best to identify my finds. Let me know if I made any mistakes. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri A seed fern specimen that was too big to carry back home. A mish mash of fern fossils and a baby seed fern which I also had to leave behind. Possibly the top of Annularia sp. peeking out in the middle Calamites More calamites and Neuropteris sp. on the bottom side of the fossil on the right. A lot of fossils overlapping. Cyperites sp.?? Pecopteris sp. (This is a chunk that broke off the large fossil towards the end of the post) A closer look at the same fossil with a different angle showing possibly Annularia sp. Cyperites on the lower side Is this some type of micro fossil?? Neuropteris Heterophylla ?? Calamites More seed ferns?? This is a big specimen I brought home with a bunch of fossils on the front and back and it weighed about 10 pounds. Closeups of them are as follows. The clearest fossil on this side is a Pecopteris sp. I assume. I used water to clean some mud off this specimens and noticed a few more fossils peeking out of the rock. Hope you enjoyed my post. Feel free to ask any questions. Happy Fossil hunting!!
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I've been spending a lot of time lately studying the Mazon Creek flora, and am continuously astonished by the diversity and quality of specimens that can be found. I don't think we see enough plants on the forum, so I figured I would go ahead and share some of my favorite finds. First is a specimen I recently shared, and a fitting start to the thread. This is Crenulopteris acadica, the most common true fern found in the Mazon Creek flora. It has been the most common plant I find, accounting for probably half my finds. Next is a favorite of mine. This is a section of Calamites (probably C. cisti) encrusted by a number microconchids. I always enjoy finding concretions with associations of different species. Last for now is a specimen of the rare seed fern Callipteridium neuropteroides with great coloration.
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I am a retired PhD environmental interface chemist who is also a lifelong fossil enthusiast after growing up in Cincinnati. I have some carboniferous plant fossils for which I would appreciate suggestions from those more knowledgeable than me. Photo1 is from Mazon Creek, IL. The leaves appear to not have a central rib and are arranged in a spray. The leaf in the upper left is interesting. These leaves are nothing like the lepidostrobus ovatifolius in Photo 2 or the lepidodendron "cone" in Photo 3 (both from Kentucky). They also appear to be too big for sigillarius leaves. Is it likely these are cordaites leaves? Photo 4 is a Pennsylvanian fossil from Kentucky that has sphenophylem leaf on the reverse. Is it a lycopod or possibly a cordaites fossil? Photo 5 is of a fossil collected by a coal miner in Pennsylvania; he though it looked like a tire track. It has no leaf scars and there appears to be a slight rectangular tiling on the fossil. Is this possibly inner bark or sigillarius bark? Photo 6 is from the Carboniferous in Oklahoma. It has a high iron content. Photo 7 demonstrates that it apparently grew in layers ~5 mm thick. One opinion suggests that it is lycopod bark. Any other suggestions. Constructive comments would be greatly appreciated. #1 #2 #3 #4 # 5 # 6 #7
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