paleoflor Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) Inspired by Matt's thread and great idea of making a display showing representative fossils from every geologic period, as well as Paul's suggestion there to make a palaeobotanical version, I decided to give this a go. However, to allow myself a bit more variety (how are you supposed to choose between Walchia and Glossopteris for the Permian?!), I picked one fossil per epoch instead. Not sure whether these are very "representative", but at least they're "obtainable" and in my collection. It turns out that I've got absolutely nothing from the Holocene, Pliocene, Guadalupian, Mississippian, Middle Devonian, Pridoli, Wenlock and Llandovery (Ordovician and Cambrian are also lacking), so if anyone with plant material from those epochs for trade, please let me know! P.S. Do you recognize the various fossils? Most come from quite "famous" localities for their respective epochs. Edited February 3, 2016 by paleoflor 1 Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 A garden of the ages...very cool! "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...
fossilized6s Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Love it! ~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...
paleoflor Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 Thanks both. Maybe I'll create a grouping like this in my display at some point. It's a nice and welcome change from my usual grouping per locality. Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 You can call this group's locality "Earth". "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...
paleoflor Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) I'll do that, ha ha. It would be a real challenge to make a more regional variant of this. Details of above photographs go over the globe, though it might be possible to do Northern or Southern hemisphere versions, especially on the period-level... Holocene - N/A Pleistocene (Riss Würm Interglacial) - Quercus robur from the "Filliti di Re", Re, Italy Pliocene - N/A Miocene (Tortonian) - Rhizocaulon huberii from Rátka, NE Hungary Oligocene (Chattian) - Florissantia speirii from the Lyons Flora, Oregon, USA Eocene - Cyathodendron texanum from the Jackson Group, near George West, Texas, USA Paleocene - Ginkgo adiantoides from the Sentinel Butte Fm., Almont, North Dakota, USA Late Cretaceous (Santonian) - Cedrus sp. from the Aachen Fm., Käskorb quarry, La Calamine, Belgium Early Cretaceous (Albian) - Tempskya grandis from the Aspen Shale Fm., Wyoming, USA Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) - Zamites feneonis from the Calcaires en Plaquettes Fm., Orbagnoux, France Middle Jurassic - Ginkgo huttonii from the Ravenscar Group, North Yorkshire, UK Early Jurassic (Hettangian) - Sagenopteris nilssoniana from the Bayreuth Fm., Forkendorf, Germany Late Triassic - "Araucarioxylon" arizonicum from the Chinle Fm., Patton ranch, Arizona, USA Middle Triassic (Anisian) - Dicroidium zuberi from the Basin Creek Fm., Nymboida, NSW, Australia Early Triassic - Skilliostrobus australis from the Newport Fm., Avalon, NSW, Australia Lopingian (Changhsingian) - Glossopteris ampla from the Illawarra Coal Measures, Mudgee, NSW, Australia Guadalupian - N/A Cisuralian - "Walchia sp." from the Ensamble d'Usclas ("Usclas Fm."), Les Tuilières, Lodève, France Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) - Corynepteris coralloides from the Eagle coal bed (roof shale), West Virginia, USA Mississippian - N/A Late Devonian (Famennian) - Archaeopteris macilenta from the Catskill Fm., Red Hill, Pennsylvania, USA Middle Devonian - N/A Early Devonian (emsian) - Mosellophyton hefteri from the Klerf Schichten, Waxweiler, Germany Pridoli - N/A Ludlow (Gorstian) - Baragwanathia longifolia from the Yea Fm., Limestone Road, Victoria, Australia Wenlock - N/A Llandovery - N/A Edited February 4, 2016 by paleoflor Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Nice work well done.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Yep Tim, I like what you've done very much. I especially like the simple organization and format and great examples. I know that was what I was going for years ago when I was collecting and moving some of the plant fossils around and took this picture...but, I never quite got to actually doing anything more with em... Seen some neat sorting/presentation ideas of late from a number of you all. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Nice display, Chris Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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