Foxx Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Possibly a flower fossil? Found in Toowoomba, Qld Australia. Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Possibly a weathered septarian concretion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bguild Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Hmm, not seeing any fossilization here. Looks to me to be geologic in nature. Rocks can be very suggestive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 It would be extraordinary for something a delicate as a flower to be preserved this way. A look at some other perspectives might be helpful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) This is the top that came off it, I will post some more photos in the morning Edited December 11, 2019 by Foxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Foxx Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) The photos above are others Ive found in the same area, I will take more photos of the first one in the morning Edited December 11, 2019 by Foxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseKoz Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I had a look at a geological map of the area and some of the nearby formations. It appears you live near a location known for finding fossils of Middle Jurassic plant life. The 'Walloon Coal Measures' formation is very close to Toowoomba and is a Late Jurassic unit (Bathonian to Callovian) deposited when the local environment was a humid swamp. In the below map the formation labeled 'Jw' is the Walloon Coal Measures. The locations for 'Jw' are maybe 20-50km out of Toowoomba, so likely your find is from another formation. The Marburg Formation, labeled 'Jbm' is located closer and is a similar age. Regardless, it looks like you're quite close to some interesting geology that is known to contain Jurassic plant life! Geological map: http://scanned-maps.geoscience.gov.au/250dpi/moreton.jpg Quote "In Australia the high palaeolatitude macrofloras of Bajocian-Bathonian, Middle Jurassic, are well known from the Walloon Coal Measures, representing communities of a humid swamp. Preserved in these deposits is evidence of the rich understorey that grew in the area in the Middle Jurassic. Among these understorey plants were osmundacean, dicksoniacean and dipteridacean ferns, liverworts, lycophytes, equicetaleans, Taeniopteris, a pentoxylacean, a genus that continued through to the Cretaceous and bennettitaleans, primitive plants that were cycad-like. The main canopy elements were conifers, the araucarian, Podozamites, and the podocarp, Elatocladus, seasonality is suggested by the well-defined growth rings in the preserved trunks of these conifers. There doesn't appear to have been many, is any, times of drought, as suggested by the extensive accumulations of peat. Sources & Further reading Kear, B.P. & Hamilton-Bruce, R.J., 2011, Dinosaurs in Australia, Mesozoic life from the southern continent, CSIRO Publishing." Walloon Coal Measures: https://austhrutime.com/walloon_coal_measures.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I see nothing resembling fossilized plants here, let alone a flower. Flowering plants (Angiosperms) first arrived definitely in the fossil record as of the Early Cretaceous. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 A mold of bracts from an inflorescence isn't so far off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 On 21/11/2019 at 12:42 AM, Foxx said: On 11/12/2019 at 2:22 AM, Bguild said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Foxx Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Thanks to everyone for your input so far, I'm having trouble uploading all the photos I would like to but have tried to add as many as I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Foxx Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 There's a lot of different types around too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Sorry, but these don't really help bring the bract mold idea into focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 I'm open to any ideas, I'm so curious to find out what it could be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 It’s just a rock sorry it’s happened to me a couple times, rocks are very tricky sometimes they make you see what you want to see not what they actually are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 This is the sort of thing that could be informative to someone who knew the area and the rock formations well even if they are not fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemphix Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 No fossil and for sure no plant imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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