jeromebe Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I see many of these fossils where I live. I was wondering if they are bamboo. I read that Millions of years ago, it use to be tropic in Eastern Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 These are most likely casts of feeding burrows. Do a search on the word ichnofossil and see if you find similar images to your finds. Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 BTW, welcome to the forum. Looks like you have a great place to find some cool fossils. Looking forward to more interesting finds. :-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeromebe Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 thanks Craig. After searching what you told me, I stumbled on what I found. It is Calamite fossils If you search this, it will come up with identical type of fossils. It was tree that would reach 100 feet or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Very cool! I just realized I didn't click the image to get a clearer view showing the surface texture of the fossil. Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Calamites is found in life postion..... sorry,can't help myself,posting urge again: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257764282_First_anatomical_description_of_silicified_calamitalean_stems_from_the_upper_Carboniferous_of_the_Bohemian_Massif_Nova_Paka_and_Rakovnik_areas_Czech_Republic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Just found one of those this weekend, but not as nice as yours. I had no clue what it was, just assumed it was some kind of plant. Fits right into the description (Carboniferous) as I found it in a place near Coal City, Indiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I am jealous. According to this link, some of the geology there is 1 billion years old. http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/energy/minerals/content/bedrock_mapping.html Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I didn't know you were interested in the Proterozoic,Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I am too new to this to have a specialty, but it looks like the geology if NB covers the topics that I personally find the most intriguing: archaic life and origin of life, Cambrian explosion and novel life "experiments", and large scale extinction events and recoveries. If I ever get a chance to take courses, I'd like to study these areas. For now, I'll have to live vicariously through Jerome. :-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Need literature(being dead serious here*)? * insofar as i am capable of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Thanks doushantuo. Right now I will focus on developing basic skills. Gotta crawl before I walk. ;-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 too late... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Wow, is that a nice specimen. How long is it? With a deposit like that, you should also be looking for the leaves, roots, and seeds of ancient plants. Get familiar with all the fossils that are common to the Pennsylvanian period fossils. http://www.google.com/search?q=Pennsylvanian+period+fossils&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1&tbm=isch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Welcome to the forum. That is very nice for Calamites as tmaier said and also well preserved. These are so often found crushed flat but yours is 3D and so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 What you have is the 3-D mold of sediment that filled in the hollow interior of a calamite. Some say that it had an easily rotted pith hence it is also called a pith cast. Think of the related hollow horsetail that could be preserved by filling the interior with sediment. The sediment hardens and the plant rots away leaving only the interior mold as a fossil.The exterior of the calamite is rarely preserved. However, yours might have some coalified stem wood left. Note the black material coating the interior mold especially on the left side. Also note the gap between the mold and the sediment on the top surface on the right side of the photo. That space probably held the coalified remains of the woody stem. Are you able to take a close photo of the possible coalified exterior (it also could be an iron rich mineral) of the calamite (or another one) which is rarely preserved? Does the black coating on the calamite seem to be coal, an iron rich mineral or something else? Here's a good article about the fossil preservation of calamites: http://petrifiedwoodmuseum.org/PDF/AnatomyViney[1].doc.pdf My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 E.G.: http://www.journaltaphonomy.com/JT-articles/2009/09-issue2-3/JT90BIS.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 ARNOLD!!!!!!!!!: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48306/ID146.pdf;jsessionid=88CD26A1E48D37BA03F460EE3EA45D3F?sequence=2 Gastaldo*: http://personal.colby.edu/personal/r/ragastal/RAG_reprints/RAG1989c.pdf *who has written pretty nifty articles on plant taphonomy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 DiMichele(From RPP!!): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251230661_Calamitalean_pith_casts_reconsidered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeromebe Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 The black stuff on it seems to be harden tar. the picture of this one was about 4 feet long. unfortunately I am amateur and tried to chisel it out to quickly. It broke in 4 pieces. They are 3D. I will try to post more picture. I read that they are around 300 - 500 million years old. about 4 hours from where these were found, the oldest shark fossil was found. it was found in Campbelton. it's 409 million year old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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