Multiple Carboniferous plants and a possible Climacograptus?

[Nathanielv99]

Need help identifying these. Found all of them in or directly around the same shale pile in a creek bank in Logan ,WV. Only About 2.5 hours of looking and there’s still plenty I haven’t gotten to yet! I’d definitely love to know if I have any rare finds so far!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChristineR]

Wow! I can’t help with ID, just wanted to say congratulations on an amazing job. 
 

This one makes a great landscape. 

[Wrangellian]

Very nice! If I were you I'd get back there to check out the rest asap.

I'm not a specialist in that area so I don't know if any of the individual taxa (species) are rare, but the quality is above average, I think.

[Lone Hunter]

You lucky dog!  Amazing find!

[ckmerlin]

I agree very nice specimens and excellent preservation 

This may help  you with identifying your specimens 

I expect some members with more knowledge in this are than I  will be along soon 

@paleoflor

 

https://www.georgesbasement.com

Go to LeoLesquereux Pennsylvanian coal flora

Edited July 7, 2021 by ckmerlin

[ckmerlin]

SECOND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA - REPORT OF PROGRESS P. DESCRIPTION OF THE COAL FLORA OF PENNSYLVANIA AND OF THE
CARBONIFEROUS FORMATION THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES BY LEO LESQUEREUX; ©1879

 

Try typing this into search engine I admit it's an old document and some of the species

May have been reclassified/ renamed.

 

LINK

 

[Fossildude19]

Welcome to the Forum.
Great finds! 

 

I see Asterophyllites, Alethopteris, Sphenophyllum , Lepidophylloides, I think. 

Plant Fossils of West Virginia.

[Mainefossils]

Those are some very neat plants. Nice finds! 

[Yoda]

Fantastic finds 

[westcoast]

Nice finds 

[Myrmica]

Nice.  The plants in the first photo are horsetails.  I don't know the genus.

[historianmichael]

Awesome finds! I have always wanted to check out some of the Pennsylvanian plant deposits of West Virginia. If you plan to do more collecting in the area, I highly recommend getting Plant Fossils of West Virginia by the WV Geological and Economic Survey.

 

Let me try to help you with a couple of IDs. The fern cluster is really cool. I would need a more close-up photo to identify it.

 

10 hours ago, Nathanielv99 said:

Annularia

 

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Alethopteris

 

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Calamostachys

Edited July 7, 2021 by historianmichael

[Fossildude19]

5 hours ago, historianmichael said:

Calamostachys

 

I must respectfully disagree.  

 

I don't think that is Calmostachys - it looks much more like Lepidophylloides.   

[historianmichael]

47 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

 

I must respectfully disagree.  

 

I don't think that is Calamostachys - it looks much more like Lepidophylloides.   

 

The fact that it was found in close association with a lot of Annularia made me think that other Calamites associated fossils could be found nearby- such as a cone. In second look, I agree that it lacks the concentrically arranged rings of bracts around the axis characteristic of Calamostachys. I would concur that it looks more like a foliaged lycophyte twig. Wittry calls them Lycopodites meekii in his book on the fossil flora of Mazon Creek.

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by historianmichael

[Paleorunner]

congratulations ..... an excellent hunt. 

 

this piece is precious.

 

[paleoflor]

On 7/7/2021 at 7:01 AM, Nathanielv99 said:

 

 

Some sphenopterid foliage. Could you indicate scale for these photographs? And perhaps add a close-up showing the venation, if possible?

[Nathanielv99]

Sorry for the wait! Here are the close ups with scale in cm. I realized there were some spots not totally clean and some have fossils on both sides I forgot to show before. I’m pretty sure there are a few more species and anomalies than I thought originally. Two of the Alethopteris pieces fit snuggly back together and could probably be split again to make 3 plates(but I’ll definitely wait for an expert.) I haven’t been able to get back down to the site those are from yet, but I went down to a spot on the local Guyandotte River and found the thing in the 1st pic in the sandy mud. Not sure if it’s petrified wood or just some type of coal, but it has some interesting patterns and is oddly sticky and lightweight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 10, 2021 by Nathanielv99