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Upper Devonian.... Leaf?

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Mediospirifer Regular Member

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My husband and I were exploring a new area for fossils, and ran across a few interesting rocks that have me scratching my head wondering what we found! The rocks in the area are Gardeau Formation, of Upper Devonian age. I picked this one off the forest floor, turned it over, and at first thought it still had a leaf stuck to it!

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I've never found anything like this before. All I do know is that Devonian is much too early for angiosperm leaves!

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Wrangellian Regular Member

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It looks to have a fracture pattern that I have seen before in coal-type plant/wood preservation (lots of it around here).

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I was wondering if it might be a compression plant fossil. At first look, the striations looked a lot like the leaf litter I picked it up out of!

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I would say it's compressed branch material from a plant. Not unknown from upper Devonian rocks like what you are looking in.

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there were lots of plants in the late Devonian,post-2520-0-02434900-1398448573_thumb.jpg

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I've found a few bits of carbonized wood before, but not often, and this didn't look like those pieces to me. It's always good to know what the head-scratcher really is!

Thanks for the input! :D

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