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My favorite leaf fossil I have found so far. Cercidiphyllum arcticum from the Paleocene of Montana. It had a layer of minute iron xtals on it and they turned to rust when exposed to water. This one is as found.

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I can't say that I've got an all-time favorite, but this is one of them.

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Crednaria zenkeri var.acuminata

Crednaria sandstone, Santonium, Upper Cretaceous

Blankenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Trigonocarpus sp.

Francis Creek Shale

Carboniferous period

US dime for scale

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We were fossil hunting with a friend around Topeka Kansas many years ago, and were looking for insect parts in outcrops of hard, hard shale nodules exposed around cattle wallows (southwest of Topeka? It's been a long time...) When we started busting open the nodules, we found plants instead. I've since found better plant fossils, but this is my favorite because it's the first I'd ever found.
I'm pretty sure this is a Calamites Annularia of some sort:

Reed Stem in mudstone

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Great topic: Tough question! Well, this is probably one of my best specimens...

Hermitia germanica Kerp and Clement-Westerhof 1984

Steinbruch Juchem, near Niederwörresbach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Rotliegend, Asselian (lower Permian)

Rhyolithic Tuffseries III-IV, Donnersberg Fm.

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(tuff matrix 60 x 35 cm)

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(detail of twigs and branches)

Background information can be found in a previous post.

Searching for green in the dark grey.

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Wouah ! Mexx your fossil is marvelous !

Coco

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Thanks Coco,

it took me a very long time to find a piece like this that has pristine cones that are attached to the original branch.

Most of them are attached to branches of other types of pet wood. It is prepped just as found. Also the overall arrangement, color and eye-appeal in general of this one seemed very attractive to me.

That one is excellent... but where is it from? I have no idea where 'Megtown' is.

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Mine isn't near as nice as the ones posted above.

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An unknown specimen from the Fort Union Formation in south central Montana near the town of Broadus. Collected in a gravel pit.

Jim

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On 8/24/2015 at 7:43 AM, Ludwigia said:

Crednaria zenkeri var.acuminata

Sorry, very old post...

But this is one of the classic enrolled Crednaria leaves?

Thanks!
Franz Bernhard

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2 hours ago, FranzBernhard said:

Sorry, very old post...

But this is one of the classic enrolled Crednaria leaves?

Thanks!
Franz Bernhard

Right you are. Found it myself at an Autobahn construction site in 2004.

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