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From the album: North Attleboro, MA Pennsylvanian Age fossils
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Taking advantage of the good weather and less traffic on the I-95 because of Super Bowl Sunday, I and my husband decided to head south to North Attleboro, MA to explore the Pennsylvanian age plant fossils from possibly the Rhode Island/Wamsutta Formation. We drove to a park near the site and hiked about a mile through the pine forest and reached the outcrop which has expanded into a shale pit. The specimens here are preserved in great condition and are abundant. The pine forest we walked through. The shale pit full of plant fossils. Here's some finds from my trip. I have tried my best to identify my finds. Let me know if I made any mistakes. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri A seed fern specimen that was too big to carry back home. A mish mash of fern fossils and a baby seed fern which I also had to leave behind. Possibly the top of Annularia sp. peeking out in the middle Calamites More calamites and Neuropteris sp. on the bottom side of the fossil on the right. A lot of fossils overlapping. Cyperites sp.?? Pecopteris sp. (This is a chunk that broke off the large fossil towards the end of the post) A closer look at the same fossil with a different angle showing possibly Annularia sp. Cyperites on the lower side Is this some type of micro fossil?? Neuropteris Heterophylla ?? Calamites More seed ferns?? This is a big specimen I brought home with a bunch of fossils on the front and back and it weighed about 10 pounds. Closeups of them are as follows. The clearest fossil on this side is a Pecopteris sp. I assume. I used water to clean some mud off this specimens and noticed a few more fossils peeking out of the rock. Hope you enjoyed my post. Feel free to ask any questions. Happy Fossil hunting!!
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I am a retired PhD environmental interface chemist who is also a lifelong fossil enthusiast after growing up in Cincinnati. I have some carboniferous plant fossils for which I would appreciate suggestions from those more knowledgeable than me. Photo1 is from Mazon Creek, IL. The leaves appear to not have a central rib and are arranged in a spray. The leaf in the upper left is interesting. These leaves are nothing like the lepidostrobus ovatifolius in Photo 2 or the lepidodendron "cone" in Photo 3 (both from Kentucky). They also appear to be too big for sigillarius leaves. Is it likely these are cordaites leaves? Photo 4 is a Pennsylvanian fossil from Kentucky that has sphenophylem leaf on the reverse. Is it a lycopod or possibly a cordaites fossil? Photo 5 is of a fossil collected by a coal miner in Pennsylvania; he though it looked like a tire track. It has no leaf scars and there appears to be a slight rectangular tiling on the fossil. Is this possibly inner bark or sigillarius bark? Photo 6 is from the Carboniferous in Oklahoma. It has a high iron content. Photo 7 demonstrates that it apparently grew in layers ~5 mm thick. One opinion suggests that it is lycopod bark. Any other suggestions. Constructive comments would be greatly appreciated. #1 #2 #3 #4 # 5 # 6 #7
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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Hello to all. Found this sample few years ago. The age of it is the Kasimovian stage of the Carboniferous period (307 Ma). Have a nice evening 1.mp4 6.mp4 7.mp4 8.mp4
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I have no idea what these concentic circles are. Found in Provo Canyon, Utah. Carboniferous age limestone.
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QUARTETnary - A card game about the geological time scale
paleoflor posted a topic in Members' News & Diversions
L.S., Wanted to raise some awareness on TFF because I expect many here will simply love this: A good friend of mine, Iris van Zelst (geophysicist at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin) has developed this really nice card game centred around the geological time scale: QUARTETnary The gameplay is based on the classic game Quartets (similar to Go Fish and Happy Families), where players try to collect as many sets of four cards as they can. In QUARTETnary, each of the sets represents four major events that took place during a specific geological time period. To win the game, you need to create the most complete timeline of Earth history, all the way from its formation 4.567 billion years ago to the appearance of us humans. The cards have been designed by Lucia Perez-Diaz (Earth scientist and freelance illustrator from the UK). The illustrations look amazing and I really like that they adhered to the official colour scheme of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Iris sent me this nice set of cards for the Proterozoic: The game includes 15 sets of four cards in total (many featuring fossils): one each for the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons, and one each for the 12 periods of the Phanerozoic. I expect QUARTETnary will become a really fun way to learn about and memorize the different geological units and major events in Earth history. Kind regards, Tim
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HI all, I found this while searching the Bond Formation Pennsylvanian road cut in Oglesby, Illinois. Any Ideas? Also, Here is a bonus pic of a Peripristis semicircularis I am prepping out. There are a few fossils I am working on right now, but I plan to make a post of my trip once things are cleaned up. Thanks for looking!
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From the album: Vertebrates
Whiteia sp. Early Carboniferous Wapity Lake British Columbia Canada -
I have these finds that I would like some assistance on deciding what they are. Two of them I am unsure that they are even fossils while the third may be a sphenopterid but I am unsure. Thank you all for your help! Carboniferous of Rhode Island. Scale is in cm.
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Howdy all, Here's a fossil of a lepidodendron stigmaria (found in association to other lepidodendron material). It was found in a coal seam in Kentucky according to the seller, and I am curious what part of Kentucky this would be from. Nolin Lake sounds likely to me, but I'm unsure.
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This was found in the Carboniferous limestone of the Malahide formation , east coast Dublin Ireland, i dont know if its bryozoan or coral
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Fossil I haven't seen before here - just wondering if anyone could ID it. Looked through various Irish fossil pages but couldn't find anything to match except possibly orthocone?
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Hello fellow fossil people! I have this plant that is very unique compared to any others I have found at this site. It is from the Rhode Island formation in North Attleboro. It is about a centimeter long. Some of the pictures are taken at 20x magnification. Any ideas?
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This was found in the Carboniferous limestone of the Malahide formation , east coast Dublin Ireland, the big shell is 30mm in size
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This was found in the Carboniferous limestone of the Malahide formation , east coast Dublin Ireland, the shell is 20mm in size
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in New Brunswick, Canada, quarry
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you've ever seen Cell Press, February 2, 2024, ScienceDaily Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry Before age of dinosaurs, plants experimented with bizarre forms, discovery shows Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Feb 02, 2024 The open access paper is; Robert A. Gastaldo, Patricia G. Gensel, Ian J. Glasspool, Steven J. Hinds, Olivia A. King, Duncan McLean, Adrian F. Park, Matthew R. Stimson, Timothy Stonesifer. Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada. Current Biology, 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.011 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.011 Yours, Paul H.-
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Howdy all, This is a lepidodendrale (Lepidodendron?) stigmaria that my Dad found in Knob Noster, Missouri way back when he was in high school. His memory isn't too straight since he found it so long ago and I'm curious what formation this may be from and if it would even be from Missouri.
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hi, i was given some interesting looking rocks. as far as i’m aware they were collected in the carboniferous deposits of northumberland. i cant tell if they’re fossils or just cool concretions… anyone know?
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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An Extensive Exposure of the Wamsutta Formation, North Attleboro
Isotelus2883 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
In 2004, the oldest flying fossil insect fossil, a trace in the Wamsutta Formation, was described in Nature. The locality was several hundred feet from where an extensive exposure of the formation was located in a cut. I was planning to try and locate the locality, but due to time issues I went back to this cut, which I had visited once before. Several other localities containing abundant plants and ichnofossils are located in the vicinity. Here is an image of a shaly horizon that was between thick conglomeratic layers. There are three of these major ones, with the lower being darker and being more of a sandstone. The middle shale layer. Most of the finds were from here, although the lower member had some complete Cordaites leaves that I forgot to take back. Here are the finds from the lower section. Occasionally, there were smoother sections of bioturbated mud between the sandy shale, where well defined trails were preserved. Some raindrop prints. Here is a possible arthropod print, that is very badly defined. In these higher energy layers, some fragmentary plants were found. A Cordaites? bit was found, with some clasts of quartz just below. Some small pebbles of quartz. Now, here are the plants from the middle shaly layer. A Cordaites? fragment, with several other pieces. A certain layer within the shaly horizon was full of these pieces, however there was little variety and there was little need to fill my shoeboxes with these. Some specimens, showed what seemed like borings on them. Here is the most distinct example. I found these, also on plant fragments at three separate localities in the North Attleboro area, including one of the Rhode Island Formation. In the talus I found a decent, but either badly preserved or badly exposed fern. Just from the shape, there are quite a few possibilities on what it might be. Hee is a quite well defined tetrapod footprint I found in a bioturbated layer of the section, which split readily into relatively thin and flat slabs, which allowed for an examination for prints. However, there is quite a bit missing on the other side of the split. And last, not a fossil but a geological oddity. It is obviously a clast from one of the conglomeratic horizons, but something is weird about it. Inside, are more pebbles. It is a conglomerate, that has weathered out and become, itself, a clast of the Wamsutta conglomerate! The clasts within this pebble are of a quite different nature than the ones in the Wamsutta. Though the finds are not very spectacular, the conglomerate pebble certainly made up for it.
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Last sunday was my first time hunting this year I went hunting in a place which contains old coast defences. The rocks are Tournaisian in age, probably from the area Tournais, or maybe the area of Soignies. The fossils are Tournaisian aged. I mostly found corals; Caninia sp., Michelina favosa etc. and brachiopods; Spirifer, Aletyphorus, Productus, Leptaenea, Rhipidomella etc. I also found trilobite pygidia from Plitonia kuehnei. When i came home and started unpacking everything i found out i was blessed. I had found a very rare Cochliodus contortus tooth without knowing it. some of my finds : 1: Caninia sp. 2: Piltonia kuehnei 3: Michelina favosa 4: unidentified 5: Cochliodus contortus 6: unprepped, probably Leptaenea analoga 7: Aletyphorus tornaciensis
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