Show Off Your Seeds !

[dragonsfly]

I couldn't find a previous posting on this topic so I thought I'd stir the water. To start this off I will post some seed fern seeds from Nicholas Co. WV. , an old reclaimed strip mine. Fossils occur in sandstone and shale. To date I have found only one chunk of matrix containing seeds at this site. Though I did find a loose Holcosperium at another site several miles away.(photo not currently available). The large seed on the left is reclining on its matrix throne awaiting its next gilded bowl of seedless grapes,( lest we slip into cannibalism) . The rock on the right contains both large and small spacemans (as the West Virginians say it). I'm assuming the two sizes are from separate species though I have not found confirmation or positive ID. Any link would be appreciated The small seeds are approx. 3/8" x 1/4" with obvious variety whereas the larger are 1-1/4 x 3/4.

[dragonsfly]

Penn Age. Kanawah Formation

[Bill]

Very nice,

Various carbonaceous seeds/pods, from the Eocene, Bracklesham Beds, Bracklesham Bay, Sussex, England. Unfortunately I preserved the 3 glossy ones with varnish before I knew better.

[dragonsfly]

Precious pods Bill ! Mineral spirits ought to dull the finish. I made the same mistake, but my fossil had been repaired with wood glue , totally visible . Ouch !

[Bill]

Thanks. I had thought of that, but I'm not sure if mineral spirits will damage them, being carbonaceous. I'll try judicious use of it though.

[dragonsfly]

Thanks. I had thought of that, but I'm not sure if mineral spirits will damage them, being carbonaceous. I'll try judicious use of it though.

Bill, Did the pods contain a single seed as with the Chestnut or many as with say, a flower's pod?

[Bill]

The empty pod is as found, no seed/nut. The others, I believe, have varying numbers of seeds in each segment. I have Fossil Plants of the London Clay, by Margaret E. Collinson. I will try to id them from that in the next couple of days. Knowing the sp. will also tell me the number of seeds they contain.

[dragonsfly]

Ignorance is bliss, keep us informed!

[Fossil Foilist]

NICE

[Bill]

I should have put 'seeds/fruits' not 'pods'.

[dudeman]

Nice Seeds, everybody! Here are a few that I can find, could have sworn I had a pine cone with nuts/seeds around here somewhere?

#1 fern & seed

#2 Fig

#3 Fig

#4 Fig

#5 Rhabdocarpus Seed - Mazon Creek

#6 Fern Tree top/branch end with seed

Looking forward to seeing some more....

[dragonsfly]

Nice ferns and FIG! I found several like your first one hard clay inside a harder shell, concretionary? No definition...I dissected a few to no avail. Maybe next time I'll leave them alone!

[Missourian]

Rhabdocarpus sp.

Tonganoxie Sandstone, Pennsylvanian

Ottawa, Kansas:

[Bill]

Couldn't confidently id any of my specimens above. Although collected from the Eocene beds, there are channels of later material there too. I think these may have eroded from the later beds and got stuck to the Eocene clay, before I collected them.

[dragonsfly]

Nice "fruiting bodies" none the less. .......If the earth would just stop moving!!!

[astron]

Very nice specimens displayed

This is a laurus nobilis seed onto a laurus nobilis leaf. I have found it in my birth place (late miocene Ctere island, Greece).

[astron]

And two samaras (elm tree)seeds I have found in my birth place, as well.

[paleostone]

Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia Coal Basin, Poland (Carboniferous)

Edited October 1, 2012 by paleostone

[dragonsfly]

Nice to see the leaves and seeds together.

[docdutronc]

Hi my friends

some samples from France and Spain

Best regards

Bruno

http://forums-naturalistes.forums-actifs.com/t4520-trigonocarpus-pachytesta-hexagonocarpus

[Terry Dactyll]

Theres some fantastic seed specimens posted here guys... Great finds and aquisitions...

Now I have my collection I can add a few of my favourate upper carboniferous seed finds to the thread...

Apparently this is an unusual one I was told...

This is a pretty big seed....

Unknown ID... Any ideas?...

Lepidostrobophyllum sporophylls...

[Kosmoceras]

Here is one of mine I found at Walton on the Naze. People on here have some great seeds.

[nala]

My samples from the Westphalian of Northern France

[docdutronc]

Hi my friends

Rachis fern and Pachytesta from Liévin basin

Hexagonocarpus boulayi Zeiller from Liévin basin.

Edited October 8, 2012 by docdutronc

[docdutronc]

Hexagonocarpus boulayi Zeiller from Liévin basin

Best regards

Bruno