Wolf13542 Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 This was found with calamites in Pittsburgh area PA. Is the first plant matter of calamites? The second might be an archemedies(spelling check?) or other shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf13542 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Oops! The other pic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 300 MYO mulch Not sure 'bout #2, but it looks carbonized too. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf13542 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 I just got back from looking there today and saw the reply. I found more mulch a calamites and a 2 ferns. What would cause mulch? Just decomposing? Can you tell what they are from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Think of all the plant debris on a forest floor; bark and leaves and twigs in various stages of becoming soil. Sometimes, the bits are unidentifiable. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Yeah I'm going to agree with mulch. I have lots of carbonized hash plates of "unidentifiable mulch material". Sometimes you can pick out certain pieces that you can get some sort of ID on but most times not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 (edited) Wolf13542.... Sometimes just below a coal layer there are the mud or clay layers that the coalified forest actually grew on prior to fossilisation, effectively the soil.... in the UK we call these the Seat Earths and very often they contain fragmentary root and plant remains that are unidentifiable as the preservation is quite poor.... I would imagine your specimen could be a chunk of this...I tried to google a definition..... ''A British term for a bed of rock underlying a coal seam, representing an old soil that supported the vegetation from which the coal was formed'' Edited December 27, 2009 by Terry Dactyll Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 "Seat earths" I will make a note, Terry. Its a new term for me, thanks! (I have some of those too. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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