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ynot Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Welcome to TFF! What is the size? Where was it found? Tony 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...
Fossildude19 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 It's definitely plant - but I don't think it is Calamites sp., if thats what you meant by "calamus". Maybe a few more pictures from a bit farther away would help, as well. 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...
doushantuo Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 my guess is from the Cleveland shale... Which does have ironstone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunPogacnik Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) Yes I did mean Calamites geting my school terms mixed up. It is about an inch across and has pyrite nodules in it. It was found in Lake Co. Oh along the beach of Lake Erie where there is glacial till. I am not for sure where it came from but it does look like cleveland black shale. Edited March 4, 2017 by ShaunPogacnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fossildude19 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 The lack of deep vertical groves and the absence of nodes leads me to believe this is not Calamites sp. I would lean more towards this being some sort of branch from something like Cordiates sp. or something similar. Not sure you can pin it down further than that. Maybe one of the plant guys will chime in. @paleoflor @Plantguy @fiddlehead @docdutronc 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...
EMP Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Just to play devil's advocate and say this were Cleveland Shale, this couldn't be a Calamites. Best bet for rocks like those would be a woody Archaeopteris stem or similar plant piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Not like any Calamites I have seen. Interesting specimen. Not sure what to make of it. Difficult to say for coalified remains like these... 1 Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 The morphology is very similar to Callixylon sp. Callixylon newberryi is attached for comparison. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 I agree. Berry, Willard. A Remarkable Specimen of Callixylon Newberryi (Dawson) Elkins Et Wieland, from the Ohio Shale. The Ohio Journal of Science. v32 n4 (July, 1932), 385-388 Callixylon Newberryi (Dawson) Elkins et Wieland. 1859. Calamites inornatus Dawson. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, Vol. XVIII, 1861— 62, p. 310, pi. XVII, fig. 56. 1931. Callixylon Newberryi Arnold. Contributions Mus. Paleon. Univ. Michigan, Vol. III , No. 12, pp. 207-232. CHESTER A. ARNOLD. 1931. ON CALLIXYLON NEWBERRYI (DAWSON) ELKINS ET WIELAND. CONTRIBUTIONS PROM THE MUSEUM OF PBLEONTOLOGY VOL. III, No. 12, pp. 207-232 4 " 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...
ShaunPogacnik Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 Those Callixylon newberryi specimens do look pretty similar thank you everyone for your inputs. pretty cool finding a plant fossil in north east ohio even if it's from glacial till. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Nice find. Interesting preservation type. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Here are other comparative specimens (Chester A. Arnold, 1931) showing impression of branch. " 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...
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