Please help me identify

[SOS]

Hello,

I have had this in my small collection for afew years now and never really known exactly what this is.

 

This was given to me as a gift, so i have no idea where it came from.

Any ideas are appreciated,

thanks.

 

 

[SOS]

Another picture.

[abyssunder]

Welcome to the Forum.
It is plant material, maybe something similar to Zamites/Otozamites. See this recent topic:

[SOS]

7 minutes ago, abyssunder said:

Welcome to the Forum.
It is plant material, maybe something similar to Zamites/Otozamites. See this recent topic:

Great! Thank you for your reply.

[abyssunder]

I thought you could be from UK, but I wasn't sure.

 

" Numerous genera and species of Bennettitales have been described worldwide, including leaves, female and male reproductive organs as well as trunks (e.g., Harris, 1932, 1969; Sharma, 1970, 1971; Watson and Sincock, 1992; Barbacka, 2000). The most common foliages are characterized by about 20 genera, including Anomozamites, Ptilophyllum, Zamites, Pterophyllum, Pseudocycas, Nilssoniopteris, Dictyozamites, Otozamites and so on. Their major taxonomical features are stated and illustrated by Watson and Sincock (1992) (Fig. 1).
Genus Otozamites is one of the remarkable leaf fossils (Braun, 1843) with about 250 species reported worldwide (Zhou, 1984).
Morphologically, Otozamites is similar to other foliages of the Bennettitales, such as Zamites and Ptilophyllum (Fig. 1).
However, the distinguishing features are the mode of attachment of the pinnae to the rachis and the shape and venation of the pinna base. Otozamites is characterized by having acroscopic margin of pinna expanding to form basal auricle, pinna base therefore being asymmetrical (Watson and Sincock, 1992). In Zamites, the pinnae have a general constricted and symmetric base on both sides; and the pinnae have a slightly decurrent lower basal angle in Ptilophyllum. In Otozamites, the veins of the acroscopic side of the pinna curve acropetally into the auricle while the veins of the basiscopic side also curve acropetally. " - as it is stated in Y.-D. Wang et al. 2008. Diversity variation and tempo-spatial distribution of Otozamites (Bennettitales) in the Mesozoic of China. Palaeoworld 17: 222–234