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Mazon Creek Plant Id Help


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Found in Braceville. Specimen had a coating of coal encompassing all sides. Weighs 6 pounds. I was thinking possibly Stigmaria but am taken aback by the size of it.

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Is stigmaria (lepidodendron) found a mazon creek? It could be a fern stem? I don't know what you would call it. Like I said in another post, I am not a wealth of information on your area :P

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Looks like Stigmaria to me.

Don't forget - many of the "trees" of that era were huge, and they needed equally large root systems to support/sustain them.

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Yes, roots (stigmaria) and trunks of lepidodendron are found there. I've found a cast of part of a lepidodendron trunk near Braceville.

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