kurtdog Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Last one for tonight, guys. Thanks for looking at these. This one's a kind of odd one, I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Possibly a leaflet from Alethopteris. "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...
MOROPUS Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 A cockroach or beetle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Probably not Alethopterus or a cockroach (beetles weren't around int he Carboniferous). It looks more like a scale from a lycopod cone - Lepidostrobophyllum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eero59 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Last one for tonight, guys. Thanks for looking at these. This one's a kind of odd one, I think... Looks like an individual cone scale, referred to as a 'bract', from a Lepidostrobus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Probably not Alethopterus or a cockroach (beetles weren't around int he Carboniferous). It looks more like a scale from a lycopod cone - Lepidostrobophyllum. Looks like an individual cone scale, referred to as a 'bract', from a Lepidostrobus BINGO! :applause: "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...
kurtdog Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 Thanks, guys. Here's a linky to a similar one (specimen #14733, ISM collection): http://www.museum.state.il.us/databases/ge...og_number=14733. I'm thinking, I don't know enough, but maybe one of you might want to add a comment, or even contact the curator (button, bottom-right), as this find (1938, by Langford), for whatever reason, is still going as "unidentified." I think this is the one I'm showing, though...right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 (Cue the taunting sing-songy music): "You know something they don't know!" Very nice fossil, BTW, "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...
kurtdog Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 (Cue the taunting sing-songy music): "You know something they don't know!"Very nice fossil, BTW, I already have it labeled/identified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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