Rockin' Ric Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Hello Ya'll from hot, steamy Bama! It had been over a month since I went on a fossil hunt. I got to go on Saturday and found a few nice specimens. Pictures 3-5 came from a stone I walked over numerous times not thinking that much about it until I picked it up and split it into and this is what I found, the pos and negative of a fern frond. It evidently had fallen from a section of the rock wall? Moral of the story, don't overlook stones just because they have nothing on it that is visible, it's what you find on the inside of one when it's split open... Central Alabama, Pottsville Formation, Carboniferous Period. Pics 1 & 2 - Alethopteris? Pics 3-7- Neuopteris Pics 8&9- Peripteris Pics 10- Lycopodites Pics 11&12- #11- 3D Calamite Stems in matrix which pops out. #12- 2D Calamite Stems with nice carbon preservation 1 WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Nice plant pieces! Thanks for sharing. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerogrower Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Amazing finds. Thank you for posting. These are some of my favorite fossils! The 3-d relief is incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Very nicely preserved specimens! Did you coat some of them with a finish or is that the natural state? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Wow, Rick! Some of those are just spectacular! Thanks for showing us. Love seeing these. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 I'll bet your are glad to have spent the time to split it. Absolutely gorgeous as usual. Thanks for the ' bama eye candy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Ric Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 3 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Very nicely preserved specimens! Did you coat some of them with a finish or is that the natural state? Thanks Ludwigia! No coating, all natural...love the ones that have the carbon film coating as a highlight. WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 I love the three-dimensional impressions, contrasting from the matrix with a carbon coating. The sense of wonder is strong in these "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 August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I love the plants you're finding down there! So nice and oddly complete. Seems like a rapid burial situation as opposed to random leaf litter stacked up. ~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...
Nimravis Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Very pretty pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 veryveryveryveryNICE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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