Stigmaria blob

[Fullux]

Howdy all,

 

I have reason to suspect that this is a heavily crushed stigmaria I found while fossil hunting today.

 

I was in the mammoth cave region of Kentucky in a creek where I found plates of coal up to two feet long as well as this fossil. I also went down into an exposed lake bed of Nolin lake which was down the hill from the site I was at and found several of what I'm guessing are mississippian crinoids.

[Tidgy's Dad]

I would think Stigmaria too.

[doushantuo]

figure from Potonie( out of copyright)

[Rockwood]

I can see what looks like root trace/scars consistent with this being a stigmaria. The blob part presents a real problem though. What is internal, external, proximal, distal in a blob? 

[Plantguy]

2 hours ago, doushantuo said:

figure from Potonie( out of copyright)

I think a couple of those scars in closer viewing look more like rootlet attachments, the preservation might be obscurring it. Could also be some other things jumbled in that specimen. I dont see a vascular trace and parichnos but thinking maybe a stain which gives the appearance of a 2nd depression/parichnos??

Regards, Chris 

[Fullux]

56 minutes ago, Plantguy said:

I think a couple of those scars in closer viewing look more like rootlet attachments, the preservation might be obscurring it. Could also be some other things jumbled in that specimen. I dont see a vascular trace and parichnos but thinking maybe a stain which gives the appearance of a 2nd depression/parichnos??

Regards, Chris 

Would this still determine the specimen as being a stigmaria?

Edited March 17 by Fullux

[Fullux]

I took another look at that particular scar and found that the spot you had pointed out is a depression.

[doushantuo]

Some of you may like this depiction by Goeppert ( NB : public domain / out of copyright)

Edited March 19 by doushantuo

[Rockwood]

5 hours ago, doushantuo said:

Some of you may like this depiction

A translation of the labeling please?