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Jason Weyland posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoJason Weyland has contributed specimen mFeM 97846 to myFOSSIL!
Jason Weyland posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 1 month ago
Jason Weyland has contributed specimen mFeM 97846 to myFOSSIL!
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What’s the second photo? Scale tree?
That’s what I’m thinking. Seems to be a lepidodendron.
Greetings @jason-weyland ! Nice finds ! Did you collect these from the Crab Orchard Mtn Formation? And the second does look like a Lepidodendron specimen l. @cameron-muskelly should be able to confirm.
This was near the Lula Lake Land Trust area. Nearly every piece of shale had a fossil. Calamities seemed to be the most abundant!
@matthew-gramling
Nice! I was just at the Durham Fossil Site with a small Facebook group I lead earlier this month. Had a great time and found some great stuff, but no scale trees…yet lol. We also found tons of Calamities/Cordaites. Looking forward to May when turkey season is over and Lula reopens the site.
@jason-weyland
@matthew-gramling
Also, cool tip…you can do some limited collecting in the Chattahoochee National Forest near Summerville. Lots of Silurian brachiopods in the Armuchee Ridges.
Thanks for the tip! @jason-weyland Check Mack White Gap near Gore. They have great Silurian to Devonian fossils there.
We’ll have to check that one out. Do you know of any good places to find trilobites or cephalopods?
Also, just contact Patrick Kelly at Lula come May and I’m sure you can get the permissions easy. He’s pretty amiable.
@jason-weyland None that haven’t been shutdown by the county government.
These are really great specimens. I am no plant guy but it does resemble Lepidodendron . I have only found 2 pieces at the Durham fossil site.