Ichno Fossils from the Carboniferous Period, July 2018

[Rockin' Ric]

Howdee y'all! It was a hot 91 degrees with humidity yesterday when I decided to get out of the home to do a little ichno fossil hunt. Life had been a tad bit rough for the past 3 months and needed some Fossil Therapy. Here are a few interesting samples.

 

 

The second pic appear to be tadpole shaped resting traces. I thought they were small horseshoe crabs?? I placed these on the FB Ichnology page and have two experts having a dialog about them. From my observation, the tadpole like images and the maker are still a mystery??

 

 

This is a partial burrow that I find a lot. About half the finds are 3D tubes with texture on them. It appears that the organism created the texture from tracks inside the tubes? Definitely not a Ichnology expert, just a guess.

[ynot]

Nice looking traces.

Thanks for sharing.

[Innocentx]

Very interesting impressions. "fossil therapy" Yeah, I think it has a lot to do with simply getting out of the box and into the natural world.

[jdp]

Looks a little like Tonganoxichnus, in which case it's a jumping trace from an archaeognathan (jumping bristletail)