flower9283 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Hey guys, I'm new here so I hope I'm posting to the right place. I found this fossil about a week ago and it looks like a crinoid to me but I need to be sure. I can't find another one that's an inch and a half wide and has such long segments. I'm fairly new to the fossil world and I'm finding that things are not always what they seem here. Lol. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 For me looks like an Orthoceras. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Welcome! Wow! That is a great piece of Calamites (a Carboniferous period tree). Beautiful. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Welcome! Wow! That is a great piece of Calamites (a Carboniferous period tree). Beautiful. Yes, a decorticated core cast. The second image shows the ribbing, and a branch base. "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...
flower9283 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 I thought that at one point but would the Orthoceras have a few nodules coming off it like this one or would those be something else as well? There are a few on the other side too all at the end only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 See posts 3 & 4 "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...
abyssunder Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Welcome! Wow! That is a great piece of Calamites (a Carboniferous period tree). Beautiful. Well...I learnt something new. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flower9283 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Sorry. Bad weather=bad internet. So wow! I had to look it up but ya. That's it! You guys are awesome! Been knocking myself out over this for a week. Thank you guys solo much. So glad I joined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 ...So glad I joined. So are we; we got to see your cool and unusual fossil! "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...
dshamilla Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Welcome. I agree, it's a good 3-D Calamites stem or branch, showing decorticated inner bark and also showing along one side the outer bark (Calamophyllites). Great find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Nice piece! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Beautiful! I learned something new...I would have guessed unicorn horn! Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocksdale Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Very nice calamites stem. And welcome to the forum. I assume you found it in Kansas? Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.–Carl Sagan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Welcome to the Forum with your super calamite! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flower9283 Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 Yes it is from southeast Kansas. I never realized there was a whole other world under my feet. Almost every rock in my area has some sort of fossil in it. Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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