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Lighting Lou posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months ago@mackenzie-smith and others – thank you very much for the feedback; your responses send me on very interesting research/learnings 👍
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Lighting Lou posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoFound underground in Atlantic Canada – quite certain it is tree bark, but any idea what kind of tree? Thanks
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Lighting Lou posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoFound underground in Atlantic Canada- approx 8cm length with horizontal lines – possibly a mollusc? Thanks
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Lighting Lou posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoThank you both very much. According to macrostrat.org, the land is in the middle of multiple formation periods that includes Mississippian-Pennsylvanian… which is both fascinating and difficult for a new learner such as myself 👍
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Lighting Lou posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoFound underground along Cambrian-Ordovician period sedimentary rock.
Image depicts 4cm section of larger 23cm formation.
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Couldn’t be wood if it’s cambrian-ordovician, it looks just like scale tree bark so it’s Carboniferous
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It’s not a sponge but similar. The name escapes me but I have one uploaded in my specimens, but I’m mobile and didn’t add it to my gallery so I can’t find the name :/ but if you can look at the specimens I uploaded it’s there.
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I was working on it with @mackenzie-smith if they remember what it was.
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Thank you both very much. According to macrostrat.org, the land is in the middle of multiple formation periods that includes Mississippian-Pennsylvanian… which is both fascinating and difficult for a new learner such as myself 👍
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Missispian and Pennsylvanian are both in the Carboniferous which supports my idea. Nice find!
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Agreed, scale tree.
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@lighting-lou, @a-trilobite and @daniel-park are correct. If it looks like tire treads, it’s Sigillaria. If you see diamonds, it’s Lepidodendron. If you just see dots it’s Stigmaria. Stigmaria is a root genus for roots belonging to either Lepidodendron (a stem genus) or Sigillaria (another stem genus). Because plants have distinct organs that…[Read more]
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@mackenzie-smith and others – thank you very much for the feedback; your responses send me on very interesting research/learnings 👍
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Lighting Lou posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoAny ideas? Found ~3ft underground underneath a massive rock
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@lighting-lou it’s a little hard to tell any specifics from these photos! They look too me like rocks with some possible calcite veins, but clearer pictures might reveal the fossil specimen you see!
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Lighting Lou posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoThank you very much for the feedback 👍
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Lighting Lou posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoMassive rock (~225kg) found underground with peculiar markings (not machine made) – my ask is whether the size and unusual shape may be something else my novice eyes don’t see?
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That’s probably just erosion.
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It could be erosion, but it could also likely be what’s called a phycode. Most phycodes are casts (or coming above the rock it’s in), but some are molds (meaning it dips into the rock like yours). Basically, phycodes are tunnels dug by animals like worms or animals that have an anchoring “foot”, that hole is filled and it leaves a defined impression.
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Thank you very much for the feedback 👍
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looks like erosion to me
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Lighting Lou posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoTwo similar “rocks” found in Atlantic Canada approx 2ft underground in a high limestone area. Item1 is more oval with an outer brittle shell; whereas item2 is a near identical flattened version of item1 – incl outer “shell” fragments
I suspect rocks or concretions – but am intrigued by the “shell” as well as the way they were found
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Lighting Lou joined the group What is it? 3 years, 8 months ago
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the porous nature of the fossil means it could be bone