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Herb Regular Member

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I'm trying to get an id for a friend, it was in his rock garden.This was found in Southern Indiana in the New Albany Shale, Upper Devonian. The only plants we have found so far in this formation are "Archiopteris" and "Callixylon" . Any ideas, plant or fish parts? :zzzzscratchchin:

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I bet its a rhizome, like stigmaria.

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lissa318 Regular Member

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The pattern does look like stigmaria! I have a similar garden find (although this one is MUCH nicer!) :)

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I agree with arborescent lycophyte, but I don't think it's Stigmaria. The pattern of the "pits" is very regular. I think it's a fragment from a stem with a knorria-type preservation.

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:popcorn:

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen

No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go.

" I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes

"can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks

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Thanks so far to everyone for your responses.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen

No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go.

" I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes

"can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks

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