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Another one of my rocks that has an imprint of something. Found in Northwest Missouri near Grand River. Any ideas? It's about 5" x 4" x 1.5". Pic with flash and 2 without flash.
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Hi, I found this beautiful little asterophyllites yesterday and noticed that there seems to be some rock covering part of the fossil. I'd like to be able to remove the rock and expose the fossil. It's very solid and too thin for any of my chisels. Would an air-abrasive pen or dental equipment work? Perhaps professional help would be appropriate.
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Howdy! Just posting some of my finds for ID. Feel free to correct or specify. I can provide dimensions if needed as it's hard to get good pics with a measure of some of these. The first two look like Asterophyllites to me. The third, fourth and fifth, I'd guess Sphenopteroids (the fourth is only 1 cm from top to bottom). The sixth I think is Annularia. The rest I believe are Neuropteroids.
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2022- Southern Illinois Earth Science Club Show
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On my way back from picking up my wife in Georgia, I stopped in Marion, Illinois to attend the Southern Illinois Earth Science Club Show. The show runs for 2 days, 4-9-22 and 4-10-22. A lot of people attend this show and I attended in the past. I will state, that I would have been disappointed if I drove the 5 1/2 hours to just attend this show, due to the lack of fossils. I will post some of the fossils that were for sale, but nothing struck my fancy. The best part of the show was looking at some Pennsylvanian plant fossils that were collected a few miles from Carterville, Illinois. Pics of the show- Fossils for sale-- 9 replies
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Hello everyone, I recently went on a trip to the fossil sight in Centralia Pennsylvania the sight was absolutely incredible practically every rock had some kind of a fossil in it and many of them had mineralized white which contrasted really well with the dark rocks they were on. We found many instances of Ferns (pictures 1-3), we also found a lot of what looked like bark (pictures 4-6) and also what seems like a large pumpkin seed, around 3/4ths of an inch by 1/3rd of an inch (picture 7). I know that Identifying plant fossils not as simple as it is for animal remains but I was wondering if anyone knows what these are, any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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L.S., As the title says, please show us your fertile plant fossils --- Seeds, pollen organs, sporangia, flowers, cones and a great many other types of fructifications: the plant kingdom is incredibly diverse in terms of reproductive strategies. The vast majority of plant fossils consist of purely vegetative remains, however, making the chance encounter with fertile remains all the more special. I'd love to see your gems! To start off, I'll share some examples from my own collection below. Cheers, Tim DEVONIAN Fertile specimens from the Famennian of Belgium (Evieux Fm.), with Moresnetia, one of the earliest seed plants (left, middle), and Rhacophyton, an early "fern-like" plant (right). CARBONIFEROUS Fertile specimens from the Pennsylvanian of Europe, with: Whittleseya, a medullosalean pollen organ (left), and Crossotheca, lyginopteridalean pollen organs (middle, right) More fertile specimens from Europe, with: unidentified sphenophyte cones (left), Palaeostachya-type (?) sphenophyte cones (middle), and an unidentified lycophyte cone (right). More fertile specimens from Europe, with: unidentified seeds (left, middle) and an unidentified fertile structure (right). More fertile specimens from Europe, with: Cordaianthus, a cone of a Cordaites-type conifer (left), an unidentified fertile frond (middle), and Corynepteris fertile frond (right). PERMIAN Fertile specimens from the Permian of France (Usclas-St. Privat Fm.), with two walchian conifer cones (left, middle) and unidentified seeds (right). TRIASSIC Fertile specimens from the Anisian of Australia (Basin Creek Fm.), with: Pteruchus, an umkomasialean pollen organ (left), a fertile Asterotheca frond (middle), and Stachyopitys, probably a ginkgoopsid pollen organ (right). JURASSIC Fertile specimens from the Jurassic of Germany and Argentina, with Bernettia, a female fructification (left), and a female cone of an Araucaria conifer (right).
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Hello! I've had these photos for about 10 years and am wondering if I can find some clues to identities or possible types of fossils. Sorry about no sizing, etc. I wasn't thinking at all about that! Just enjoying a quiet, gray day surrounded by fossils. Thanks!
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Hi, I last visited this site a while back, after I received some fossil shale from the Florissant Quarry a couple years back. You all were wonderfully kind in responding. Well, I've upgraded my home lab (I've been hunting tardigrades for the last year or so), and I have a solid stereoscope, and I decided to revisit my shale to look for microfossils or things that I'd missed. I came across this section (perhaps half an inch in total); the view is a shot through my stereoscope. To my eye, it's plant material, and it looks like wood cells. From what I understand from Herb Meyer's The Fossils of Florissant (SO GREAT), wood fossils (aside from the huge stumps, of course) are relatively rare. If so, and it might be of interest to folks, I'd be happy to send it along to the Florissant folks. Anyway, thanks for reading, and take care. Brett
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Ahunt into the Mist today But i have found nice Alethopteris nice Eusphenoptheris But it was a great day for Lepidodendron! Good sigillaria nice calamites trunk a trigonocarpus(fossil seed) And why not minerals to make a change septaria(i neglected them,in the past)but these are very nice
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I recently received a few tracks from a friend and haven’t really shown them here. Enjoy Chirotherium barthii or Isochirotherium sp. Moenkopi Formation Holbrook Member Arizona 240 Million Years Old Middle Triassic These tracks were actually studied by Spencer Lucas and Hendrix Klein earlier this year. There also seems to be some plant material mixed in with the tracks in the larger slab in photo 4 as well, however I’m not to sure what species so I’ll probably post them in fossil ID later. Smaller Slab Larger Slab
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I have six more MC specimens that I need help with identifying. Again, down to species level if possible. The only one I'm fairly sure of is the Coprolite.
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
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