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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
4.2 mm long, 1.7 mm wide© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
4.2 mm long, 1.7 mm wide© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal-mining district (Hauts-de-France, France)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal-mining district (Hauts-de-France, France)
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From the album: Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal-mining district (Hauts-de-France, France)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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Can someone please answer what each of these items are? if some are really petrified? #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of going on an ESCONI trip to a giant shale pile in Danville, IL in search of Pennsylvanian fossils. I was fortunate enough to find a beautiful Trigonocarpus seed. (I included it for comparison to specimen 3). Second specimen seems to be another seed I can’t quite identify. After some research, I’ve come up with basically nothing. It’s textured, and has the shape of a teardrop. (Below) As for number 3, I actually just noticed it today while going through some of my finds. I don’t know if it’s wishful thinking, but it looks kinda similar to my Trigonocarpus seed, but with more ribs. I was thinking possibly Holcospermum because of how ribbed it is? Unfortunately it’s a little hard to see as not much of it is exposed. Could just be nothing, but I thought it looked peculiar. (Below)
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Name is Roy, and I am from the north west part of Crawford county in Indiana. I am about 800' above sea level. I found some fossils of what looks like some kind of cat tail, so the water must have been shallow here at some time.
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Hello Everyone, I recently went on a trip to Norfolk (I'll do a trip report soon) and collected some bulk samples from the West Runton Freshwater Bed, a famous Pleistocene deposit. I've been washing the first batch of it today and found several small seeds (~1-4mm) which I currently have in a small jar of water as a few started to split when they began to dry. I was wondering if anyone could advise me on how to preserve and stabilise the seeds. My goal is to be able to try micro mounting them to take pictures and see how many species there are, I've counted at least 6 different shapes so far. The seeds themselves are subfossil and as a result still quite fragile and pliable. while some of them may survive controlled drying without splitting I'm intrigued to see if anyone has another suggestion. Thanks for the help, Benton
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L.S., As the title says, please show us your fertile plant fossils --- Seeds, pollen organs, sporangia, flowers, cones and a great many other types of fructifications: the plant kingdom is incredibly diverse in terms of reproductive strategies. The vast majority of plant fossils consist of purely vegetative remains, however, making the chance encounter with fertile remains all the more special. I'd love to see your gems! To start off, I'll share some examples from my own collection below. Cheers, Tim DEVONIAN Fertile specimens from the Famennian of Belgium (Evieux Fm.), with Moresnetia, one of the earliest seed plants (left, middle), and Rhacophyton, an early "fern-like" plant (right). CARBONIFEROUS Fertile specimens from the Pennsylvanian of Europe, with: Whittleseya, a medullosalean pollen organ (left), and Crossotheca, lyginopteridalean pollen organs (middle, right) More fertile specimens from Europe, with: unidentified sphenophyte cones (left), Palaeostachya-type (?) sphenophyte cones (middle), and an unidentified lycophyte cone (right). More fertile specimens from Europe, with: unidentified seeds (left, middle) and an unidentified fertile structure (right). More fertile specimens from Europe, with: Cordaianthus, a cone of a Cordaites-type conifer (left), an unidentified fertile frond (middle), and Corynepteris fertile frond (right). PERMIAN Fertile specimens from the Permian of France (Usclas-St. Privat Fm.), with two walchian conifer cones (left, middle) and unidentified seeds (right). TRIASSIC Fertile specimens from the Anisian of Australia (Basin Creek Fm.), with: Pteruchus, an umkomasialean pollen organ (left), a fertile Asterotheca frond (middle), and Stachyopitys, probably a ginkgoopsid pollen organ (right). JURASSIC Fertile specimens from the Jurassic of Germany and Argentina, with Bernettia, a female fructification (left), and a female cone of an Araucaria conifer (right).
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Hello, I picked up several strange "buds" in the desert this morning. I usually find small petrified wood chunks (possibly acacia) at this spot, but I have never seen this before. They really do look like seeds (like stretched walnuts). Found in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE (United Arab Emirates). I think it is Miocene in age. (The first 3 look more like the familiar wood, except that they have weird small bumps on them.)
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From the album: Carrière Les Tuilières (Lodève, France)
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From the album: Carrière Les Tuilières (Lodève, France)
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From the album: Carrière Les Tuilières (Lodève, France)
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Hi All, So I recently got this slab with a Annularia and Laevinopteris The seller claims that the bumps on the leaf surface are the seeds. Is this correct? TBH I am not too fussed either way, as I would have probably bought this without this "feature".
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Hello! As a new member I am excited to learn from more experienced folks on this great forum. We found these coprolites (I think that is what they are) near the Little Colorado River, near Gray Mountain, Arizona which is about 45 mins north of Flagstaff, Arizona. They were both found on the surface. We go to this area to rock hound for jasper, agate and petrified wood, which we find in plenty. Can anyone tell me: 1. Are these coprolites? 2. What kind of seeds are fossilized? 3. Based on location and seed id, who pooped these out? Thank you very much! I am also about to post pics of what I think may be a large bone fragment found the same day and in the same location.
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Amazing new Fossil find!!! or just another interesting rock :-)
rocksinsocks posted a topic in Fossil ID
LOCATION Turon River, Hillend, NSW, Australia GEOLOGY I don't know how to find this, the rock has quartz in it, I would appreciate a link or further reading if you have any. FORMATION Grey with shiny quartz particles ASSEMBLAGE No other fossils observed at this site, it was found next to a fresh water river that had recently had a flush of water through it. It may have washed down from another site. DISCOVERY It was loose beside the river beside a rock I was sitting on, I looked down and saw this rock and thought "that looks interesting" CHARACTERISTICS I think it is a trace fossil of seeds and footprints. The "seeds" are the same shape with a slit in the middle of the shapes. The seed shapes are smooth on the surface beside the splits. They measure 8 mm x 12 mm. There are also shapes that look like trace footprints with three toes. These are all a similar size of about 8 mm to the middle "toe" and 8 mm wide. What confuses me is they are all over the rock top and bottom and sides. The whole rock is 23 cm x 14 cm and is 6 cm thick. The pics show Side A Side B Close up Close up
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Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds By Andrew Curry, Science News, Feb. 5, 2020 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/dead-sea-dates-grown-2000-year-old-seeds Scientists Revive Ancient Trees From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds Heard on All Things Considered, February 6, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/02/06/803186316/dates-like-jesus-ate-scientists-revive-ancient-trees-from-2-000-year-old-seeds The open–acess paper is: Sarah Sallon, Emira Cherif, Nathalie Chabrillange, Elaine Solowey, Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Markus Egli, and Frédérique Aberlenc, 2020, Origins and insights into the historic Judean date palm based on genetic analysis of germinated ancient seeds and morphometric studies Science Advances 05 Feb 2020: Vol. 6, no. 6, eaax0384 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0384 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaax0384 Yours, Paul H.
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From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Vegitation
The majority of these berries are ground cherries from about 52 Ma years ago with the fruit fossilized. This is very rare to have so many specimens with the soft fruit still attached to the host. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Vegitation
The majority of these berries are ground cherries from about 52 Ma years ago with the fruit fossilized. This is very rare to have so many specimens with the soft fruit still attached to the host. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Vegitation
The majority of these berries are ground cherries from about 52 Ma years ago with the fruit fossilized. This is very rare to have so many specimens with the soft fruit still attached to the host. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Vegitation
The majority of these berries are ground cherries from about 52 Ma years ago with the fruit fossilized. This is very rare to have so many specimens with the soft fruit still attached to the host. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Vegitation
The majority of these berries are ground cherries from about 52 Ma years ago with the fruit fossilized. This is very rare to have so many specimens with the soft fruit still attached to the host.
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