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To continue on with Scott's (piranha) series Show Us Your Fossil Cones and Give Us A Glimpse At Your Ginkgos, I present Flash Us Your Fossil Flowers!

Here are some Common and not so common Flowers found near Princeton, British Columbia. All are lower middle Eocene in age and come from the Allenby Formation.

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DGBP_0173.jpg Florissantia quilchenensis

DGBP_0153.jpg Pistipolianthus sp.

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And here are some fruiting bodies or seed pods that resemble flowers. These are also from the lower middle Eocene Allenby Formation exposed near Princeton, British Columbia.

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Awesome flowers, Dan! :)

Love these pictures. :wub:

Thanks for showing us!

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Fantastic fossil flowers Dan! :) Let's hear it for Fossil Flower Power! B)

Flower indet sp. - Eocene

18" layer - Green River Fm - Kemmerer, WY

Florissantia speirii - Oligocene

Lyons Flora - Thomas Creek, Lyons, OR

Florissantia quilchenensis - Eocene

Tom Thumb Mbr - Klondike Fm - Republic, WA

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Here are a few more from my collection. Again, both are from the lower middle Eocene Allenby Formation exposed near Princeton, British Columbia.

One is a flower while the other is a flower-like fruiting body (seed pod).

post-2629-0-92964300-1294362281_thumb.jpg Pistipolianthus sp.

post-2629-0-26091000-1294362268_thumb.jpg Porana tenius

Pistipolianthus is a relatively rare compression fossil in the Allenby Formation but occurs frequently in the Princeton Chert (still part of the Allenby Formation) where it is preserved down to the cellular level. Porana, although superficially resembling a flower is in fact a seed pod and is fairly common at certain sites in the Princeton area.

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OK now here's a topic I might be able to contribute to - once I get the pics.. stay tuned...

Those Florissantia seem pretty common generally... wonder why I dont have one yet!

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OK here's one from the local Santonian (Haslam Fm)... dont know what it is for sure but it looks like a flower to me. Forgot to add something for scale but you can see it's in one of the small 1.5 x 1.5" foldup specimen boxes.

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That's definitely cool, never seen anything like that from up here, nice!

OK here's one from the local Santonian (Haslam Fm)... dont know what it is for sure but it looks like a flower to me. Forgot to add something for scale but you can see it's in one of the small 1.5 x 1.5" foldup specimen boxes.

Cephalopods rule!!

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Yes, cool, but sometimes puzzling!

This was my first flower find - I did not know what it was at the time, but being a kid that would pick up anything that looked remotely like a fossil, I collected it anyway. It was only later I realized what it could be, and someone told me it was probably Astronium sp. (flower-like fruit - Santonian, Haslam Fm. near Duncan, Vancouver Isl.) Only this year did I find the counterpart (or part? - positive side) that you see on the right, in a box of 'scraps' that I was planning to chuck.. glad I decided to go thru them with a fine-toothed comb first!

Note, there is a coaly substance in the center of the positive part.

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This one I'm not sure what it is and it's difficult to photograph, but looks flower-like (Nanaimo, U. Cret.) - It's about the size of a dime:

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Those are pretty cool Eric!

I've heard about Cretaceous flowers being found at the Cranberry Arms Site near Nanaimo but I've not seen any first hand and your specimens are probably very similar to the material found at that site.

Very cool!

Thanks for showing them!

Dan

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Yes , Graham Beard's museum in Qualicum Beach has received a large collection of Cranberry arms material including flowers. If you are on Vancouver island his museum is a must see.

Cephalopods rule!!

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Those are pretty cool Eric!

I've heard about Cretaceous flowers being found at the Cranberry Arms Site near Nanaimo but I've not seen any first hand and your specimens are probably very similar to the material found at that site.

Very cool!

Thanks for showing them!

Dan

Yes, I was there on the BCPA Symposium field trip in 1999? [memory for dates is bad] and one of the attendees from Alberta &*^%$ found a flower, and I didn't! (Not from that particular site.) At least I got a fair amount of leaves etc. incl. a largish chunk of the palm Phoenicites(?).

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Here is one I just found in my drawer that might be a flower or part of one.. I thought this was from Smithers BC but now I'm not so sure (I received a tray full of material that is on red/orange/tan/almost white pieces.. doesn't really look like the Smithers or Princeton stuff, nor Green River for that matter) Anyway, here it is. It's about 9mm at its widest, and hard to see/photograph.

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Here is one I just found in my drawer that might be a flower or part of one.. I thought this was from Smithers BC but now I'm not so sure (I received a tray full of material that is on red/orange/tan/almost white pieces.. doesn't really look like the Smithers or Princeton stuff, nor Green River for that matter) Anyway, here it is. It's about 9mm at its widest, and hard to see/photograph.

I think this is a samara.

Here is another samara, though much jounger:

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Ulmus glabra Hudson 1762, winged samara

Wych Elm

Upper Pliocene

Willershausen am Harz

Germany

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC).

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You guys are showing some incredible material... Very nice to see :) ...

Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... :)

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I think this is a samara.

Here is another samara, though much jounger:

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Ulmus glabra Hudson 1762, winged samara

Wych Elm

Upper Pliocene

Willershausen am Harz

Germany

What is a samara, a seed?

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What is a samara, a seed?

Winged fruit Eric, here's one from your neck of the woods, a Dillhoffia cachensis from McAbee.

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Hey you guys beat me to the punch!

Oh well here's another from the Allenby Formation.

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What is a samara, a seed?

Ulmus glabra is known as Wych or Scots Elm. A samara is a winged seed. Here is a picture:

Thomas

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Ulmus glabra is known as Wych or Scots Elm. A samara is a winged seed. Here is a picture:

Thomas

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Beautiful specimen Thomas. Is that from your personal herbarium? I collect antique herbariums and have dabbled a bit on my own. Lovely! But I digress .... is the 'term' seed in this case a function of, or a part of, a whole of a winged fruit which by definition is the vehicle that transports the seed(s)?

Semantics or something different entirely?

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Beautiful specimen Thomas. Is that from your personal herbarium? I collect antique herbariums and have dabbled a bit on my own. Lovely! But I digress .... is the 'term' seed in this case a function of, or a part of, a whole of a winged fruit which by definition is the vehicle that transports the seed(s)?

Semantics or something different entirely?

I think you are right: A samara is the fruit with the seed in the center as in elms or on one side as in maples (but I am only talking sort of mickey mouse English).

The picture is just hijacked from wikipedia, it's not mine.

Thomas

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