Assorted Plant Fossils.

[Guest Nicholas]

Here some pictures from my last hunt here on Cape Breton Island, they are Pennsylvanian Upper Carboniferous Fossils, all found in North Sydney (My home town). These aren't the whole batch, I have huge slabs with tons of fossil fragments and some I'm going to split. Oh and there were about 10 photos that were too blurry to post. Total weight of the finds was 120 pounds. Any idea what species each is?

So here goes:

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Note pictures 1 to 3 are the same fossil, different sides.

[Roz]

Nicholas

Glad you have some more fossils now! Nice wood!

[Guest N.AL.hunter]

Nice. Number 5 is a winner for sure. You just got to get into that place!!

[Guest solius symbiosus]

5) a Calamites

10) I think I see leaf scars in parrallel patterns, if it has those, it is the lycopsid Sigillaria(probably an inner bark).

I would call the rest "woody" material. 14 might also be Calamites. Can you get a better pic of 10 and 14?

[Auspex]

Well, #5 (for sure) and #14 (probably) are Calamites (horsetail rush). They grew 'em big back then!

Here's a link you might find useful: http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/pa...ges/images.html

BTW: Did you ever think that you would begin a post with "Here some pictures from my last hunt here on Cape Breton Island"?

[Guest Nicholas]

Thanks guys, at least number 5 is good enough to ID properly.

BTW: Did you ever think that you would begin a post with "Here some pictures from my last hunt here on Cape Breton Island"?

Nope, not ever... lol

[Guest solius symbiosus]

HERE is a page on Pennsylvanian fossils from Nova Scotia. They should be representative of what you are finding.