icycatelf Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Been a while since I've found anything new, but this turned up in the creek rubble today. Could it be a fossil? Eastern KY, Pikeville Formation (Pennsylvanian). Found as float. Casual surface-collector and Pokémon fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 might be yes, might be no... can you itendify fine structures like lines or cells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icycatelf Posted July 1, 2022 Author Share Posted July 1, 2022 (edited) 17 hours ago, rocket said: might be yes, might be no... can you itendify fine structures like lines or cells? I can't make out any myself, but I'm not sure if my camera would even pick up such details, or if they'd even still be preserved having been tumbled around in the creek. Edited July 1, 2022 by icycatelf 1 Casual surface-collector and Pokémon fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 Appears to me to be a water worn chunk of sedimentary rock. Petrified wood is normally mineralized. The fossil plants that are common in Pennsylvania are a possibility but those were generally pithy and quite different than later woody trees. IMHO this is just a rock. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icycatelf Posted July 2, 2022 Author Share Posted July 2, 2022 22 hours ago, erose said: Appears to me to be a water worn chunk of sedimentary rock. Petrified wood is normally mineralized. The fossil plants that are common in Pennsylvania are a possibility but those were generally pithy and quite different than later woody trees. IMHO this is just a rock. Yeah, I was expecting Cordaites, if anything. I've found plenty of the pith casts (Artisia) and even a couple with what appears to be the woody part of the plant attached. 2 Casual surface-collector and Pokémon fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 23 minutes ago, icycatelf said: I was expecting Cordaites, if anything. I've found plenty of the pith casts (Artisia) and even a couple with what appears to be the woody part of the plant attached. Some of the plant material found at the Joggins cliffs site in Nova Scotia are very mineralized looking. Is the look known in that area ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icycatelf Posted July 2, 2022 Author Share Posted July 2, 2022 (edited) 55 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Some of the plant material found at the Joggins cliffs site in Nova Scotia are very mineralized looking. Is the look known in that area ? They might occur nearby, but I've not found any calcified/silicified plant fossils in my area (over 5 years of casual surface collecting). I assume that my Cordaites example above is iron-based (limonite, siderite, etc.). Edited July 2, 2022 by icycatelf Casual surface-collector and Pokémon fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Unless you can find something under a lens in some way it's still going to be tough to call this a first I'm afraid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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