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Greetings @philip-inman ! Your specimens appears to be a Cretaceous dicot of some variety. @mackenzie-smith might be able to provide some insights.

Or perhaps a monocot.

I’ll look online at some images and I could see what the Universities here might have too.

Hello @philip-inman I think all I can say is the same as @matthew-gramling . I’m glad that Cretaceous dicots from Alaska are receiving attention again though. Just as a heads up, to my knowledge no one is working on them at the moment so it’s probably significant. I believe Jack Wolfe was the last one to publish on the matter. Definitely try the museum and university in Fairbanks but like I said, it’s been a while since anyone has looked at them and even perhaps a new locality. That isn’t uncommon with paleobot. Often times with Cretaceous leaves we will give them morphotype numbers since there are many extinct species and leaves can be undiagnostic to a genus or family. And that isn’t bad. It just means we hope to find the leaf attached with fruits or wood that can help us with ID. The leaves (as a whole assemblage) also help us deduce the climate.

I think we have some petrified wood too, possibly with leaves either attached or fossilized next to them, I can post a few more pictures of the cleaned up fossils we found Wednesday and yesterday.