Pennsylvanian Era plant fossil identification required

[MichiganMan]

Hoping to determine species and exact structure in pic.

This was found in Eaton county in 2021. It came out of material from the Pennsylvanian era, where other club moss casings and fossils have been found. First “cone” or “flower” I’ve come across. Will post more pics  later today of this as well as some other pieces of other mosses I’ve collected over the years. Couple pics included without ruler just as teasers…

[MichiganMan]

Here are some additional pieces. I’ve never identified for sure, so any help here is appreciated. 

[JBkansas]

I can't help classify it but the bark and cone detail looks amazing. You may want to number the specimens to reduce confusion.

Edited May 29, 2022 by JBkansas

[MichiganMan]

I will do that, not sure if an edit may be the way to go…

[MichiganMan]

Here are pics numbered

[Ludwigia]

This is a little overwhelming having so many at once, and it's not easy for me to distinguish some of them. But I'm pretty sure that #s 2,4 & 5 are Lepidodendron bark and that #6 is Stigmaria.

[MichiganMan]

Thank you!

[deutscheben]

Very interesting, I haven’t seen Pennsylvanian-age fossils from Michigan before!
 

Many of the other specimens are probably not identifiable beyond “unspecified wood or plant matter”, but I believe the cones are the genus Lepidostrobus. This would make sense, since they were another part of the same tree that the Lepidodendron bark came from.

[MichiganMan]

There is only a small area that was not completely scoured clean of that layer by the glaciers for some reason and was spared, ergo “Grand Ledge”, and “The Ledges” in Eaton County.  
 

The material there has very interesting diversity and quality randomly, from almost opalized pieces, to charcoal remnants, to sandstone trace fossils, and some “soup stone” like mudstones. All I’ve found so far has been plant material, but I’ve been trying to look in some concretions more recently. Still without anything that I can recognize, but some fossils I’ve noticed maybe covered in a thin iron pyrite layer of crystals obscuring the fact that there’s a fossil at all, let alone what kind.

 

I only collect from the stream bed and private property to prevent damaging any natural areas, but you can see where the river is eroding material directly out of the side of cliff where some things can be still be seen in disturbed in situ.

 

Let me know if you have interest in visiting the site. Just went Monday and water levels were uncharacteristically high, but managed to grab a few pieces.