Leaves?

[icycatelf]

I found this poking out of the creek about a week ago. It looks like there are leaves in there (maybe some twigs as well), but I'm not sure what kind. The long, skinny shapes of the "leaves" make me think they might be Annularia (although lacking the fanning shape, which I assume is because they fell off the plant), but I'm not sure... The biggest ones at the bottom left measure about 2cm long.

Edited February 20, 2016 by icycatelf

[Auspex]

It does look like plant bits ("paleo mulch").

[abyssunder]

Hard to tell from that image, but I think they are not Annularia, looks more like Neuropteris/Pecopteris fragments,at least the bottom one.

[Jeffrey P]

I'm thinking stems and twigs. Definite plant material. I see a lot of Devonian age stuff like that in and around the Catskills.

[JohnBrewer]

"paleo mulch".

That's a term I like

[icycatelf]

Hard to tell from that image, but I think they are not Annularia, looks more like Neuropteris/Pecopteris fragments,at least the bottom one.

That's what I thought at first, but when I looked at more Neuropteris images, it started looking less and less like it. Still might be, though. I'll try to take some close-ups of the leaf-like shapes soon to see if that helps with the ID.