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More Plant Material. Likely Pennsylvanian (Cordaites?)


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Found a new site, I think it's Pennsylvanian, no documentation on it. Thoughts?

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They look sort of like Bergeria, but I won't put any money on it. I would say Penn. also.

There is a nice .pdf file of Fossil Plants of Indiana, free for download from the Indiana Geological Survey.

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I think the 3rd is a partial Cordaites leaf; the 1st and 4th may be decorticated Cordaites limbs/trunks.

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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, Auspex! After your post, I found an old thread on this forum about Cordaites. My first picture looks a lot like some of the posted pictures in that thread. I did find another website that had a picture that matched my 2nd. It was described as Cordaites and was about 12" by 12", but not specific about what part. Is the second one bark?

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... Is the second one bark?

The repeating diagonal pattern is suggestive of a Lycopsid, which have a habit of de-layering and showing many different aspects.

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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