Strange find Lower Carboniferous

[terapoza]

Hi. I went to old closed quarry last Monday. I use to visit this one for last ten years. It's a Burren formation dated Visean -Asbian in Galway (3 miles north from town center) Ireland. Mainly you can find Productus , Eomarginifera, S.junceum large colonies, gastropods etc. Specimen below it's the first find of this type I found here. Any ideas? It doesn't look like concretion to me but maybe Iam wrong.

[terapoza]

[Wrangellian]

Looks like plant material, but I doubt there is enough to go on in IDing it more specifically. Still nice to find any plant material from before the Pennsylvanian/Lower Carb.

[westcoast]

Nice find, the plant material indicates proximity to land which we don't find in the Burren to the south. Fluctuating sea levels due to glaciation have a significant effect in the upper part of the Burren Formation.

[Tidgy's Dad]

The Burren Formation contains marine limestones but also deltaic shale deposits which contain some plant material.

So I'll say plant remains too.

Nice.

[GeschWhat]

It looks like something in the horsetail family to me, at least in the upper right corner. I just happen to to be out collecting modern species this weekend in order to compare to bits I have found in Carboniferous coprolites.

[terapoza]

Thanks for replies. It's nice to find land plant in shallow marine environment from late Asbian. Unfortunately it's not my subject. I like Paleozoic invertebrates. If someone is interested in fossil plants I think I could make him happy to send this specimen for free with full description.