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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 7 months ago
5 years, 7 months ago5 years, 7 months agoThank you!!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new specimen in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 7 months ago
5 years, 7 months ago5 years, 7 months agoCarrie Jolene has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 7 months ago
5 years, 7 months ago5 years, 7 months agoThanks again for taking the time to look into that for me. I will check it out!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 7 months ago
5 years, 7 months ago5 years, 7 months agoThank you so much! Are there any books or websites you recommend that are particularly user friendly in terms of learning how to identify fossils? I recently got the Audubon society guide to fossils but I did not find it very helpful.
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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoThanks for checking it out. I added a couple more pics
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Carrie Jolene posted a new specimen in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 8 months ago
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@mackenzie-smith ID help here?
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Hi there! Most of the rock in that area is marine so plant life would be rather unexpected. However, terrestrial material can wash in on occasion. For stems (which includes wood) the most useful angle for generic ID is from the top/bottom (i.e. a cross section).
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Thanks for checking it out. I added a couple more pics
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Thanks! From the cross sections we can see that we have two, circular zones: an inner and outer. Sadly, there is no cellular detail preserved which would help us get a more specific name on it. The outer texture is actually a root mass from the same plant. These combined characters let us know we have a tree fern stem (true tree ferns do not…[Read more]
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Thank you so much! Are there any books or websites you recommend that are particularly user friendly in terms of learning how to identify fossils? I recently got the Audubon society guide to fossils but I did not find it very helpful.
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Yeah, the Audubon fossil guide is really general and doesn’t help with specifics. One pretty much needs a guide for each region they go to to account for the diversity of life over the past 541 million years (and sometimes that can be hard because there isn’t entry level material for everything). I looked online and the best thing I could find is…[Read more]
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Thanks again for taking the time to look into that for me. I will check it out!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoThanks for the guidance!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoAwesome, I’ll check them out. Thanks!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new activity comment 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoThere are vertical striations
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Carrie Jolene posted a new specimen in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoCarrie Jolene has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new specimen in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoCarrie Jolene has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Hi Carrie. Many rocks in that area are Carboniferous (359-299 million years old) and further southwest they are Ordovician (485-444 million years old). Those hollow chambers tell me that you have some sort of cephalopod (the taxonomic class of Cephalopoda) whith the group that countains modern octopi amd squid in addition to the extinct ammonites.…[Read more]
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Thanks for the guidance!
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Is the rock really hard? Can you scratch it with the coin? I’ve found chert chunks with molds of fossils in Missouri. So no fossil remains but just an empty hole where the fossils were. I think they were Carboniferous in age! Many of the fossils were crinoid stems and looked like an imprint of a stack of Cheerios or smarties.
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Carrie Jolene posted a new specimen in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoCarrie Jolene has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Carrie Jolene posted a new specimen in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 8 months ago
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The black is due to plant matter becoming coalified. There appear to be circular divits in it (as opposed to diamomd shaped divots) which tells me this is a Stigmaria, the root morphogenus of Lepidodendron. This is an extinct club moss tree root.
Thank you!!