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Hey everyone, Looking for help with identifying this fossil. I found a really special rock months back. I knew it was a fossil but couldn't identify. After months of obsessing over the rock, I decided I need more detail so I placed in vinegar. It reacted really quickly with the vinegar, removing the white lines from the stone and bringing out details. I did not remove all the limestone, so there is additional detail to get out of it still. Note I put a bit of grape seed oil in order to make it shine as after the vinegar bath, it is quite matted without it. It appears it has soft tissue, what I can see as a vascular system of some sort. The details and colors are really well preserved. I can't find any fossil online like this regardless of age. I didn't these type of tissues could preserve themselves this perfectly. You can tell this animal had got bitten on its one side, and it looks like that may have had a blot clot or something from this damage. It has lines around the base and I believe that is the easiest way to help identify it. It was found in Guelph, Ontario, Canada as a rock just below the surface. The area through here is Silurian (426M years old). There are a number of soft tissues fossils preserved in this area. This area was part of barrier reef around the Michigan basin and possibly close to land at the time.
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Aglaophyton major vascular tissue, protoxylem is in the middle, surrounded by metaxylem and then the phloem
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From the album: Rhynie Chert
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Aglaophyton major vascular tissue, protoxylem is in the middle, surrounded by metaxylem and then the phloem
Pleuromya posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Rhynie Chert
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If this topic was posted in the wrong place feel free to pull out the whips and chains. These are being found at deposit of petrified wood in south Alabama. Silicification strata sure looks favorable in situ-clay, then 1 foot of wet sand and rounded quartzite, then the wood. No limb nots, most of it has straight parallel bands like a vascular plant. Occasionally some samples with annual rings. Complete logs are rare, most are segments from 5 to 50 pounds. It seems related to Tallahatta silicified sand(stone). And it seems to have silicified grey sand in it. Thanks in advance.
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