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Bruno...Some great finds... The Artisia is stunning... ;)

RomanK.... Very nice...and its 'abundantly populated' with almost 3D Spirorbis... Probably the most i have even seen on one piece... :)

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Hi my friends

Last find from Liévin aera

Cordaites bark ??? with Artisia

Bruno ;)

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Hi my friends

Last find from Liévin aera

Cordaites bark ??? with Artisia

Bruno ;)

Hi Bruno, very interesting and good finds as usual, congratulations. What do you think about these pics from Russian forum (collector Mr. Shaposhnikov) wich look like lycopod and got a septed pith like Artisia? The specimens are the petrified wood ones.

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Thanks, Roman

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Hi Bruno, very interesting and good finds as usual, congratulations. What do you think about these pics from Russian forum (collector Mr. Shaposhnikov) wich look like lycopod and got a septed pith like Artisia? The specimens are the petrified wood ones.

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Thanks, Roman

Hi Roman

These specimens are very large in their size :wub: , Mr Shaposhnikov was (or is )a researcher or

a private collector, Roman thank you for sharing with us your findings !!!

Yes it's septed like Artisia

Bruno

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Bruno... Great finds...

RomanK... Very impressive pieces there...

Heres a couple of the bits from today... the smallest Palaeoxyris shark eggcase I have ever seen at 2"...a very nice nodular fishscale... a Calamostachys and a double Trigonocarpus type seedpod...

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Hi my friends

Steve very impressive these nodules

Here is a link sent by a french collector Guy .....

Awesome, we are "humble" with our section stems from or trunks a few centimeters!!

great discoveries that makes us dream, thank you Guy for sharing with us this link

interestingly, horsetails were well branched, twelve branches in this specimen :D

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my last finds from Auchel northern France ....

Bruno ;)

http://www.geonetzwerk.org/2009/11/02/fossil-des-jahres-2010-museum-fuer-naturkunde-chemnitz-gewinnt-mit-dem-groeszten-versteinerten-schachtelhalm-der-welt/

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Bruno.... Thanks for the link, a very impressive calamites example... and great fossils as usual... :)

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RomanK & Bruno.... Very nice... Im really struggling for plant, I had to check out some well old spots just to find anything plantwise... here they are... a Lepidodendron cone tip and a Neuropteris dussartii....

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RomanK & Bruno.... Very nice... Im really struggling for plant, I had to check out some well old spots just to find anything plantwise... here they are... a Lepidodendron cone tip and a Neuropteris dussartii....

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Hi Steve, I like your Lepidodendron cone, nice find!

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Source: http://evolution.biologique.free.fr/temps/album/Paleozoique/Carbonifere/slides/lepidodendron.html

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Cant say I have lot of plant material yet...hoping to get out to Pennsylvania sometime when I get back from my deployment. No fossils where I am in Afghanistan. :P

but i thought of this picture....

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Hi my friends

last finds ,Rhacophyllum (in Kidston collections )Aphlebia goldenbergia Weiss ,from Liévin aera

Bruno ;)

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Hi my friends

last finds ,Racophyllum (in Kidston collections )Aphlebia goldenbergia Weiss ,from Liévin aera

Bruno ;)

Wonderful, Bruno!

It seems that the species is more widely distributed than the literature acknowledges; congratulations!

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Something more common : Sigillaria bark with Syrindodendron .... :rolleyes:

Bruno

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Bruno.... Quality material as per usual ;);)

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Hi my friends

thank Auspex and Steve for your comments ...

Some rachis ferns : Aulacopteris , preserved in print but slightly compressed three-dimensional, they seem flexuous rachis and are ornamented with fine longitudinal striations, about 2 centimeters wide, from Lievin Basin

Bruno

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Nice finds Bruno and Steve. That is my last one. This branch (first and second pic) was inside the specimen which looks like the Ompholophloios bark (third pic)

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Could somebody explain me whether it is Ompholophloios or not?

Reconstruction of the Ompholophloios (from Bruno's website)

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Bruno & Roman... Stem finds are popular today and some very nice examples you both have posted... I have a couple of oddities for you to see that were brought to my attention by a friend of mine... I know 'what' they are but the preservation seems very unusual

Firstly a very 'nobbly' Stigmaria...

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Secondly a strangely preserved Cyclopteris where the central section seems ok and the outer leaf edges are torn or possibly have started to decay...

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Any thoughts or ideas on these?

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Bruno & Roman... Stem finds are popular today and some very nice examples you both have posted... I have a couple of oddities for you to see that were brought to my attention by a friend of mine... I know 'what' they are but the preservation seems very unusual

Firstly a very 'nobbly' Stigmaria...

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Secondly a strangely preserved Cyclopteris where the central section seems ok and the outer leaf edges are torn or possibly have started to decay...

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Any thoughts or ideas on these?

Nice stigma Steve, it looks like the rootlets were attached to the main root stem at burial time.

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RomanK....''Nice stigma Steve, it looks like the rootlets were attached to the main root stem at burial time.''

Roman...I can see what your saying and thats exactly what puzzles me... With Stigmaria being the 'root' system of a tree, the root itself would already be buried prior to any sediments being deposited to cover and fossilise it... most of the Stigmaria I have found has been in the not so well preserved 'seat earth' (or fossil soil) layer immediately below fossilised tree stumps...Typical examples show the attachment points for the rootlets but never anything like this and the attachment points themselves look quite flimsy on the crushed specimens where rootlets are visible...not so robust as this... I wonder if this could be an example of Stigmaria from nearer to the trunk itself which could explain the stronger attachment points for the rootlets?

I havent observed this before...

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RomanK....''Nice stigma Steve, it looks like the rootlets were attached to the main root stem at burial time.''

Roman...I can see what your saying and thats exactly what puzzles me... With Stigmaria being the 'root' system of a tree, the root itself would already be buried prior to any sediments being deposited to cover and fossilise it... most of the Stigmaria I have found has been in the not so well preserved 'seat earth' (or fossil soil) layer immediately below fossilised tree stumps...Typical examples show the attachment points for the rootlets but never anything like this and the attachment points themselves look quite flimsy on the crushed specimens where rootlets are visible...not so robust as this... I wonder if this could be an example of Stigmaria from nearer to the trunk itself which could explain the stronger attachment points for the rootlets?

I havent observed this before...

Yes Steve, that is very unusual. The closest shape I've found yet

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