gabe cooper Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 hi everyone, i’m new here and am needing help identifying some recent finds of mine. any tips or comments are greatly appreciated, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Welcome to TFF! Tip one- always tell where the rock was found. Tip two- always include a scale in the pictures. Tip three- provide multiple pictures from different angles. Tip four- post ID request in the "ID" sub forum section. Sorry, but the rock You have does not look like a fossil. 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...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Hello, Gabe, and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. Any chance of a close up of the bottom half ? Looks like there may be Mississippian plant impressions there. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Breakin' Rocks Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Hello, Gabe, and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. Any chance of a close up of the bottom half ? Looks like there may be Mississippian plant impressions there, maybe. Looks like he's loaded a HUGE image. If you click the original and then click again to enlarge it it is quite detailed. It definitely looks like some plant impressions. Here is a screen capture if it helps of the larger image. Malzal tov ! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Breakin' Rocks Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 a big PS..... I am in no way a plant guy but those little impressions would make me grab for that rock too. Cheers, B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just now, Brett Breakin' Rocks said: Looks like he's loaded a HUGE image. If you click the original and then click again to enlarge it it is quite detailed. It definitely looks like some plant impressions. Here is a screen capture if it helps of the larger image. Malzal tov ! Ooooppppsss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, i forgot about the magnifier function. Sorry, Gabe! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Welcome to the Forum, Gabe! We seem to have some plant impressions here. With the location of the find, we can determine their age, and begin to parse out what they are. So, where'd you find this? 1 "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...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Tags say Carboniferous, Oklahoma, but a little more idea of location might help, please. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatinformationist Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Hey Gabe, don't worry about a thing or guys are in complete controland welcome to the Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Macrostachya sp, perhaps "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...
Brett Breakin' Rocks Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 23 minutes ago, Herb said: Macrostachya sp, perhaps Might I say Herb that your new profile pic is beyond epic .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I think you have a trace fossil but not sure which one. Possibly Nereites (a worm). "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemphix Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 5 hours ago, Innocentx said: I think you have a trace fossil but not sure which one. Possibly Nereites (a worm). Yes, that (trace fossil) was my first impression, too. On the other hand, there are different carboniferous plants which may fit the shape (i think something like Selaginellites, Seymourina, Calamites, of course they are permian, but just to figure out what i want to say...i think similar plants are known from carboniferous layers as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 4 hours ago, Pemphix said: i think similar plants are known from carboniferous layers as well I agree that this could be plant impression. The fact it's so small and without much detail, I don't think we can really say what this might be. "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 ... or may be something in the line of Treptichnus - Phycodes " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Yes I think we might be looking at a trace of some kind as most have already said. I'm not sure what yet. I can see the cases being made for plant or burrows and more leaning toward burrows. Can you provide any other shots of the other sides/bottom/top? Was it just lying on the ground or in a creek or did you perhaps pry it out of a bed/rock layer--im curious about the orientation of those traces and are there others like it or other types/patterns that you may have noticed? Curious for sure. thanks for showing us. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 If Carboniferous in age, they certainly do look quite similar to impressions of more distal lycopod branches, e.g. Lycopodites, especially when preserved in sandstone. Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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