@samantha-ocon I hate to bother you, but you’re the only “official” person I know on here and that is clearly a spam bot. Does myfossil have a report function for those and I’ve simply missed it, or…?

@samantha-ocon Done and done. And thank you for your help, I don’t think there’s a fossil I’ve uploaded that you haven’t at least tried to help identify 🙂

That’s correct, though I think he was in one of the shafts adjacent to it. That whole area is basically hollowed out, I’ve heard somewhere that it’s a real issue because the ground keeps settling as the old mine shafts collapse, damaging buildings and such. Zollverein was the largest, though, and has been turned into a cultural heritage site since.

It does turn out that I was mistaken, however – F. Krantz was the founder of the store, which is now run by his descendants. Guess I better take off that name

@samantha-ocon given that it was collected in an active coal mine, I doubt it can be placed any more precisely than that – I can’t even ask my grandfather if he happens to know how deep they were digging at the time, he passed away years ago

@samantha-ocon I’m sorry, this is one fossil I know nothing about because I just bought it as a kid – I added a picture of the label just in case I misread it, though

@i-edwards I don’t know him personally, I just read his name on the label 😉

I already filled in the information from the label. Dr. Krantz runs the local geological supply store, so his ID should be reliable.

None. Usually I can fall back on the field reports I had to write, but that particular trip was structured differently and I had to give a presentation on the Nördlinger Ries instead. Best I can remember, I collected it somewhere in southern Germany.

@samantha-ocon I’m not 100% sure I got the same individual, there are several in this piece, but hopefully the lighting helps increase the contrast a bit.

@samantha-ocon done, hope it helps

@samantha-ocon yup. I’m very annoyed that I can’t place it, it’s probably one of the nicest pieces I’ve ever found

@samantha-ocon sorry, no, this is about all of it

@samantha-ocon would if I could, but this one’s glued into the case – there really aren’t more angles available

@samantha-ocon I’ve done my best, hope it helps

@Nathan-Newell Yup, that looks very similar – and according to a quick Google search, Neuropteris has been found in the Ruhr Area.

I added some close-ups of the leaves, but as I said, they’re not ferns but seed ferns – plants that look “fern-ish” in the fossil record but differ both in the structure of their leaves and the fact that they have seeds instead of spores.