Show us your scale tree fossils.

[Bobby Rico]

9 hours ago, Nimravis said:

here are a couple quick pieces that I was able to find tonight, all Mazon Creek

Cheers Ralph some really nice specimens here. Much appreciated Bobby.   

[LabRatKing]

From a big box of rocks labeled “Geo 215” in a disused storeroom on campus. Identity and provenance unknown, bot cool!

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, LabRatKing said:

From a big box of rocks labeled “Geo 215” in a disused storeroom on campus. Identity and provenance unknown, bot cool!

Geo 215 definitely has some nice specimens thanks for adding. The question on everybody mind is what is in box Geo 216?

[Bobby Rico]

The last of my collection is a small but fine specimen from an lost location a disused colliery in County Durham U.K. 

[Bobby Rico]

I ask myself a lot why do I collect and why do I like things. For lots of reasons my childhood has a say in this.  I came from  a family of collectors not fossil by the way, this is just my obsession but toys, glassware, music, art and books, so I was always used to seeing people surrounding themselves with treasure. Sometimes subconsciously I am drawn to different unrelated objects or images that bring back nostalgia or a moment of revery , like this scale tree fossil that looks like wallpaper my mother had in her back room. 

[Bobby Rico]

I have looked though my collection and I have No more specimens left. I do hope this thread will have few more takers . Cheers Bobby 

[Petalodus12]

Here’s my meager addition to this thread. It may just be a tiny twig from a scale tree, but I find it interesting due to its association with Conchostracans. The paleo environment would have been something like a mudflat.

Stratigraphy:

Birmingham Shale of the Casselman Formation, Conemaugh Group

Age:

Late Pennsylvanian, ~303 MYA

 

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, Petalodus12 said:

scale tree, but I find it interesting due to its association with Conchostracans. The paleo environment would have been something like a mudflat.

Stratigraphy:

I agree with you it a nice piece that really paints a picture of it’s prehistoric past. Thank you for adding to this thread.
Cheers Bobby 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice thread, Bobby!

And thanks to everyone for their rather wonderful contributions. 

I'll have to see if I can find one of my Somerset Coalfield pieces to add, but my Upper Carboniferous stuff is all boxed up. 

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Nice thread, Bobby!

And thanks to everyone for their rather wonderful contributions. 

I'll have to see if I can find one of my Somerset Coalfield pieces to add, but my Upper Carboniferous stuff is all boxed up. 

Cheers Adam there are some nice specimens added here by the forum. Looking  forward to seeing your Somerset finds.
Cheers Bobby 

[marguy]

my contribution:

deep decortication of Subsigillaria with linear scars of the leaf bundle, sandstone, from Bort les orgues (France,  Corrèze),  Pennsylvanian

[Thomas.Dodson]

This is an interesting thread.

 

Here is my modest contribution, a specimen I collected from a coal mine dump in North Georgia (Walker County). Upper Pennsylvanian, Crab Orchard Mountain Formation.

[LabRatKing]

On 10/21/2020 at 10:43 AM, Bobby Rico said:

Geo 215 definitely has some nice specimens thanks for adding. The question on everybody mind is what is in box Geo 216?

That’s likely a course number so the follow on would likely be Geo 305 or it is the sequel, the original being either geo 115 or 210...academic administration uses mystery math!

[LabRatKing]

Good news, found another section of this guy Posted previously. No worries, I think I have 99% of the gap chunks!

If anyone suggests Identity, that would be great. Was labeled “fossil tree fern/cycad” with no provenance...And I don’t know trees!

[Bobby Rico]

On 28/10/2020 at 10:26 AM, marguy said:

deep decortication of Subsigillaria with linear scars of the leaf bundle, sandstone

That’s really nice find thanks for adding to my thread.

[Bobby Rico]

On 28/10/2020 at 7:47 PM, Thomas.Dodson said:

This is an interesting thread.

 

Here is my modest contribution, a specimen I collected from a coal mine dump in North Georgia (Walker County). Upper Pennsylvanian, Crab Orchard Mountain Formation.

Thank you . I have a few fossils from defunct coal collieries , that now are sadly lost locations . 
 

cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

On 30/10/2020 at 8:10 PM, LabRatKing said:

Good news, found another section of this guy Posted previously. No worries, I think I have 99% of the gap chunks!

Nice a little project in glueing it back togetherness. Nice piece but I can’t help with an ID may our friend @paleoflor can help.

 

thanks again for adding to my thread much appreciated 

[historianmichael]

I wanted to refresh this thread with a recent purchase I made: a cone of a Lepidodendron. This cone is Lepidostrobus variabilis. It is from the Upper Carboniferous Period (Namurian B), Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland. 

 

[Bobby Rico]

Just a boost to my thread in the hope to see some more of your specimens. Not mine but the photograph is, from the 

Teylers, Museum of Wonder

The oldest museum in the Netherlands 1784 and is located in Haarlem. The collection contains early laboratory equipment , fossils and paintings. It is a fantastic place.

[Bobby Rico]

On 17/11/2020 at 1:11 AM, historianmichael said:

wanted to refresh this thread with a recent purchase I made: a cone of a Lepidodendron. This cone is Lepidostrobus variabilis. It is from the Upper Carboniferous Period (Namurian B), Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland. 

That’s really cool.   

Sorry for late reply and thank you for sharing Cheers Bobby 

[Ludwigia]

Teylers is a great museum. Among other things they have the best collection world-wide of the fossils from Öhningen, including the giant salamander A. scheuchzeri, which was thought back at the beginning of the 18th century by the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to be the remains of a poor sinner from the great flood. It was of particular interest for me to see this and the other finds from there, since the original site is only a half an hour's drive away from my home.

[Bobby Rico]

29 minutes ago, Ludwigia said:

Teylers is a great museum. Among other things they have the best collection world-wide of the fossils from Öhningen, including the giant salamander A. scheuchzeri, which was thought back at the beginning of the 18th century by the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to be the remains of a poor sinner from the great flood. It was of particular interest for me to see this and the other finds from there, since the original site is only a half an hour's drive away from my home.

Thank you Roger I did realise the location is in your backyard. I like the story of the sinners. I hope this is the right photo to illustrate your post. It is one of my favourite museums in one my favourite countries. All the best Bobby  Bobby 

[Ludwigia]

10 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Thank you Roger I did realise the location is in your backyard. I like the story of the sinners. I hope this is the right photo to illustrate your post. It is one of my favourite museums in one my favourite countries. All the best Bobby  Bobby 

Yup. That's him.

[Ruger9a]

And here's my contribution to your topic @Bobby Rico  The first plant is Sigillaria rugosa

Subsigillaria species

Lepidodendron species trunk

Stigmaria ficoides

Lepidodendron rimosum

Sigillaria bark

Lepidophloios bark

[Bobby Rico]

11 hours ago, Ruger9a said:

And here's my contribution to your topic @Bobby Rico  The first plant is Sigillaria rugosa

Very nice collection you have and it has given my thread a good bump. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Bobby