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I've had some great hikes this month with such a variety of finds. I walked several miles rock hounding and my legs were tired. I sat down to hydrate and debate if I should continue when I looked down and right in front of me was the cutest little fern. I was lucky enough to find the matching halves in the same spot! Just the energy I needed to keep going!
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Made it out to Mazonia for the opening day this year, and it was the first time I ever filled a bucket. Went back with my 4 and 5 year old and they found another 20 concretions themselves. A little chilly the first day but it kept the bugs dormant, great weather on the return trip. We got a nice open Alethopteris half as well.
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Cladophlebis texensis, Lewisville Formation
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Cladophlebis texensis, North TX Cenomanian, Cretaceous July, 2022 These tiny ferns lived on the deltaic plain amongst Protohadros and other dinosaurs. Eventually they were swept away and carefully preserved in these mudstones. Truly a unique Cretaceous find for TX. Sometime soon, I want to revisit this site and search for other unusual fossils perhaps of insects or even feathers. A dino tooth wouldn't be so bad either.-
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Cladophlebis texensis, Lewisville Formation
Mikrogeophagus posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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Cladophlebis texensis, North TX Cenomanian, Cretaceous July, 2022 These tiny ferns lived on the deltaic plain amongst Protohadros and other dinosaurs. Eventually they were swept away and carefully preserved in these mudstones. Truly a unique Cretaceous find for TX. Sometime soon, I want to revisit this site and search for other unusual fossils perhaps of insects or even feathers. A dino tooth wouldn't be so bad either.-
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I found some interesting specimens as I was probing soft reddish colored Rock (sandstone?) that had been dumped in a field near my house Atchison Kansas. I could be wrong with my assumption is that it's from the nearby Missouri River. A handful of interesting observations pictured here but I'm not sure about. 1) The hard oozy substance on one rock. Is that amber? 2) the half dollar sized impression that looks like it's an Amber upon another rock. Could that be some kind of plant? 3) one rock has a thin black band across it. Wondering what ancient event might be known to cause that? 4) most interesting, I found a few Trilobite looking figures. From what I've dug into so far, looks like they might bea Carolina praying mantis oothecas. I have read that these can be hard, but they feel hard like the rock, or at least close to it. Nearby I did see s momome cotton-like material that look like it could be another stage of this creature. But then again it wasn't very thick and just a little bit of cotton material there. I have the suspicion that perhaps these were more ancient oothecas partially fossilized. But that was only a wild guess. Any insights into any of the above would be most welcome. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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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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Hi Everybody! I'm trying to hunt down some sites for fern fossils in Northeast Pennsylvania. I have zoned in on Lackawanna county & small areas around Carbondale. I have found a shale pit area that I am unsure if it is public or private property. I'm having a very difficult time discerning whether or not the land is public or private. Any tips or suggestions on where to look? Has anyone had success with public hunting in the area?
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An Extensive Exposure of the Wamsutta Formation, North Attleboro
Isotelus2883 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
In 2004, the oldest flying fossil insect fossil, a trace in the Wamsutta Formation, was described in Nature. The locality was several hundred feet from where an extensive exposure of the formation was located in a cut. I was planning to try and locate the locality, but due to time issues I went back to this cut, which I had visited once before. Several other localities containing abundant plants and ichnofossils are located in the vicinity. Here is an image of a shaly horizon that was between thick conglomeratic layers. There are three of these major ones, with the lower being darker and being more of a sandstone. The middle shale layer. Most of the finds were from here, although the lower member had some complete Cordaites leaves that I forgot to take back. Here are the finds from the lower section. Occasionally, there were smoother sections of bioturbated mud between the sandy shale, where well defined trails were preserved. Some raindrop prints. Here is a possible arthropod print, that is very badly defined. In these higher energy layers, some fragmentary plants were found. A Cordaites? bit was found, with some clasts of quartz just below. Some small pebbles of quartz. Now, here are the plants from the middle shaly layer. A Cordaites? fragment, with several other pieces. A certain layer within the shaly horizon was full of these pieces, however there was little variety and there was little need to fill my shoeboxes with these. Some specimens, showed what seemed like borings on them. Here is the most distinct example. I found these, also on plant fragments at three separate localities in the North Attleboro area, including one of the Rhode Island Formation. In the talus I found a decent, but either badly preserved or badly exposed fern. Just from the shape, there are quite a few possibilities on what it might be. Hee is a quite well defined tetrapod footprint I found in a bioturbated layer of the section, which split readily into relatively thin and flat slabs, which allowed for an examination for prints. However, there is quite a bit missing on the other side of the split. And last, not a fossil but a geological oddity. It is obviously a clast from one of the conglomeratic horizons, but something is weird about it. Inside, are more pebbles. It is a conglomerate, that has weathered out and become, itself, a clast of the Wamsutta conglomerate! The clasts within this pebble are of a quite different nature than the ones in the Wamsutta. Though the finds are not very spectacular, the conglomerate pebble certainly made up for it.- 10 replies
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A petrified mini-ecosystem: fern rhizome in nurse log
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L.S., Wanted to share this "mini ecosystem" in fossilized form. The photos below show a rhizome of Osmunda pluma Miller 1967, a member of the royal fern family, from the Paleogene of the Fort Union Group (probably the Sentinel Butte Fm.) near Glenn Ullin in Morton County, North Dakota. On the first photo you can see a central stele surrounded by "eyes", which are cross-sections through the petioles of the leaves of the fern (see for comparison this section made through an extant Osmunda cinnamomea rhizome). More to the top and bottom of the photo, parallel lines are visible. These are the remnants of a woody texture, probably of some kind of gymnosperm (see also the second image, a flatbed scan of the entire slab containing the fern rhizome). According to Miller (1967, p. 143) the fern was growing on a so-called "nurse log": when a tree in the woods falls over and starts to decay, this can provide an excellent opportunity for new plants to grow! See for example these lovely examples of modern nurse logs. Cheers, Tim Fern rhizome of Osmunda pluma Miller 1967 showing central stele and petioles The fern rhizome is embedded in a woody texture, interpreted as a nurse log.- 2 replies
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From the album: Pennsylvanian subperiod, Monongahela group, West Virginia USA
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From the album: Pennsylvanian subperiod, Monongahela group, West Virginia USA
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Hello, my friends. Several years ago I purchased this sample. Unfortunately, there was no information available for him. I found it interesting because of the center. I was hoping it might be a fern. Please help me identify it. Thank you Have a nice day
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Hi again. Today I would like help with these two very similar fossils I found in Lyme Regis UK many years ago. They seem to be Mudstone from what I'm learning and have many boring worm holes on the outside of the rock. The inside has triangular patterns with ripples which resemble plant forms. Any help with a name would be much appreciated, so I can properly record my collection now. Thanks, Jes.
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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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This afternoon I headed to Cory’s Lane for some digging. I unfortunately completely forgot about the tide, but thankfully it wasn’t very high when I arrived. A group of four was already there, and they said they didn’t find much “except for maybe a piece of grass.” The shale is very crumbly and oily, and virtually blank most of the time, so my hopes were not very high. I did find some decent, albeit very badly preserved ferns. Identification of these is very much welcomed, as I don’t know much about these. Rhode Island Formation, partially metamorphosed. My first find, Crenulopteris? Weird fern that was at a different angle to the bedding planes. Very badly preserved. A decent fern. Another I think of the same species, split from the first block. Some weird rusty things. Macrospores? The day’s haul. It was quite fun, the shale did split easily, it was just quite dirty and greasy. I should return again at a later time and hopefully find better material.
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Can anyone help me identify this fossil? Possibly from Dinmore, Queensland Australia. Front and back photos. Thanks!
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Hello, I also found this one deep in the desert near the Organ Mountains outside Las Cruces NM. I am not familiar with the age of the area.
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Looking for suggestions for last minute hunt near Birmingham, AL
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I will be traveling through the Birmingham Alabama area Thursday afternoon/Friday morning - 6/8-9. Looking online there seems to be a decent opportunity to look for road cut exposures and such in the area. I would be most interested in plant material if anyone has any suggestions though anything would work for a mini hunt. Any assistance would be most welcome.-
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First Post! I looked up online where I could possibly find fossils in Rhode Island, and I think I found one of the more popular sites. Unfortunately I visited the site during high tide, but I was able to discover a fossil fern. I ended up leaving the fossil at the site since I don't think I could have kept it. Attached below is an image of the fossil fern I discovered. From my experience at this location, you do not need tools to break apart the shale because the shale at this locality is extremely fragile. A small hammer and chisel could be handy to pry apart more stubborn rocks.
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