ravensimage Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 Not sure if this is a fossil its one of 3 the other 2 look like wood..this one has rings around it doesn't really look like wood..really heavy as well
Auspex Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 Crinoid column? I'd have also suggested cephalopod, but it does not appear to taper. An end view would help. What size it it? "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!
paleoflor Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 Reminds me of Artisia, the pith cast of Cordaites. Are there Carboniferous strata near you? Searching for green in the dark grey.
Auspex Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 Reminds me of Artisia, the pith cast of Cordaites. Are there Carboniferous strata near you? Good call! That is coal country, for sure. "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!
ravensimage Posted August 16, 2015 Author Posted August 16, 2015 It's 6 inches long size of a 50 cent piece around
ravensimage Posted August 16, 2015 Author Posted August 16, 2015 There isn't anything close to me but they were my dad's and I don't know where he found them
ravensimage Posted August 16, 2015 Author Posted August 16, 2015 There is a lot of coal mining here it could've came from here I suppose
Auspex Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 I see a carbonize film, which indicates plant remains. "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!
paleoflor Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 Like Auspex said, plant material. That second specimen is no Artisia, though. Searching for green in the dark grey.
Herb Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 looks like a narrow piece of Calamites to me. You can see the carbon film and pieces of coal. "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
ravensimage Posted August 16, 2015 Author Posted August 16, 2015 Thanks a lot I inherited them and my kids are trying to identify the all
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