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Hello all! I got to go fossil hunting today after work before the storm rolled in. I'm familiar with most Carboniferous Flora but these two finds. Is the fern frond and leaflets called Peripteris or something else? The second and third pic looks like a Calamite? It has ribbing but no nodes present? Could this be a leaf of some type of Lycopod? Any help would be appreciated. Carboniferous Period, Pottsville Formation, Alabama.

 

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The first piece looks like Alethopteris serli and the other 2 are Calamites with internodes. The internode is to the right of your thumb in the second picture and to in the top left of the third picture. It looks like the same piece except w different pictures.

 

Nice finds.

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Very cool finds, Ric. As usual. :) 

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+1 on Alethopteris and Calamites.

 

 

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Nice finds Ric! +2. 

 

Anything more going on here outside of the frame of the photo? 

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Regards, Chris 

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