PaulStG Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 When I found it the stone had been used as part of the stone wall. Wondering if someone can Identify the plant and how old it might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Wow, very pretty. Where did you get this from? It looks like a piece of a Pecopteris frond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I agree, it looks like a Pecopteris frond in which case it is most likely, though not certainly, Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) so 300 to 323 million years old, approximately. Hello, Paul, and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulStG Posted February 16, 2018 Author Share Posted February 16, 2018 Thanks very much, I am from Massachusetts, it was found in Somerset about 30 miles from the cape. Don't know if it's easy to tell from picture but it is about a foot long, pretty large despite missing some spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Wow! I grew up in Assonet. Never found anything like that. Some old walls were built there with imported stone, so no absolute guarantee it originated there. Welcome to the forum. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulStG Posted February 16, 2018 Author Share Posted February 16, 2018 Thanks I appreciate it, was cleaning up and I lifted this thing from under the bed. I've had it for so long and I never thought to ask, ended up finding this awesome forum. That's what I figured with the stone, there is so many old walls built around the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Well I know in Rhode Island there are a few sites that yield this, perhaps these formations get all the way up to Massachusetts. Either way that is a awesome fern “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Welcome to the Forum. Definitely a Pecopteris sp. from the Rhode Island formation, Narragansett Basin. There is a plant site in Rhode Island, about 1/2 hour south of Somerset, in Portsmouth. The preservation is better in your specimen, though. Not as distorted. Also, there are some quarries about 45 minutes to the north west, in Plainville, Mass., that have produced plant fossils. I wouldn't be surprised if there were outcrops throughout that range, that may have been disturbed or uncovered by construction and farming in the area. (New England is famous for growing rocks in farmer's fields. ) Great example! Thanks for posting it. Regards, 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 February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Put into a wall huh? Our ancestors had no respect. I would have kept that even when collecting fossils wasn't cool. Good job saving that for posterity. Your kids will thank you some day ( or at least someone will ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 1 hour ago, caldigger said: Put into a wall huh? Our ancestors had no respect. That was many seasons ago. Likely the only thing exposed at the time was a few tiny bits like you see on the lower right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Oh my Glossopteris! That Peco. is a beaut! Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 7 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: I agree, it looks like a Pecopteris frond in which case it is most likely, though not certainly, Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) so 300 to 323 million years old, approximately. Hello, Paul, and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. I agree, and welcome to the FF "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 7 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: I agree, it looks like a Pecopteris frond in which case it is most likely, though not certainly, Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) so 300 to 323 million years old, approximately. Hello, Paul, and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. Rhode Island Formation. 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...
DoyouthinkhesaurusRex Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Welcome to TFF. That is a beautiful piece! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Welcome to TFF and a stunning fossil indeed. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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