@mackenzie-ross-2 Can I request an edit for this specimen I posted? I have since narrowed the geochronology information down to Silurian and Red Mountain Formation. Most likely Aeronian or Telychian in Age.

Thanks @mackenzie-ross-2 ! 😁

@mackenzie-smith@mackenzie-ross-2 Thanks! I looked in my copy of Herbert Meyer’s The Fossils of Florissant and there is only 1 species listed for Cupressaceae: Chamaecyparis linguaefolia (Lesquereux). I’m not sure if there are other members that have been documented in the literature since it was published in 2003.

@mackenzie-ross-2@patrick-hsieh It’s in the family Curpressaceae for sure. I don’t know if can be narrowed down further. I believe Chamaecyparis (like Port Orford Cedar) is known from Florissant but I don’t know if there are other members of the same family with similar foliage types that have been found there (Thuja, Cupressus…).

@mackenzie-ross-2 Thanks!

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@nick-white and @mackenzie-ross-2, @a-trilobite brings up a good point that it doesn’t resemble a typical horn coral (rugose coral). However, when I look at Calamites roots (I actually don’t know the morphogenus for the roots since technically Calamites only refers to the stems) there seems to be wide ribbing and here we see wide spacing between…[Read more]

Hello @charles-du@daniel-park@mackenzie-ross-2. I apologize for the late response, I was teaching a very stressful online class last semester and am now catching up on myFOSSIL notifications. This is a very nice leaf! Is this from behind the high school? That site has been quarried pretty well and nice leaves like this are hard to find now a…[Read more]

@patrick-hsieh and @mackenzie-ross-2 hard to say with only the sub-base and only secondaries. Definitely angionsperm (Magnoliophyta). If I had to give my best educated guess, it would be the genus Liriodendron (tulip tree). We have Cretaceous leaf records of this plant so the timing matches. In terms of characters, the arching of the secondaries,…[Read more]

@mackenzie-ross-2 unfortunately not at the moment. We received a lot of material from one locality and are still waiting on more geologic info to come in from the original owner. I will soon though!

@mackenzie-ross-2 , it was found near Liūlinė village in Lithuania, at the riverbank of Žeimena.

@mackenzie-ross-2 Thanks!

@mackenzie-ross-2 Okay! I added a for more pics trying to get it as light as I could, thank you for the tip 🙂

@mackenzie-ross-2 I did it, I found them while digging. IN LAND

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@mackenzie-ross-2 is this beter? Thx!

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@mackenzie-ross-2 this was found in Hephzibah Georgia in a fresh water spring !

@mackenzie-ross-2 – no I wish it did, found it at a feed store in Oklahoma for sale and was drawn to it.

@mackenzie-ross-2 It was in a Silurian-Devonian era spot where crinoids are common. What’s not common about this one is the size. Could you help to identify the species? Thanks!