Off Topic - Tree Root

[Gary]

I found this fossil of a tree root (Lepidodendron) that's been identified by a Prof. at the University of Kansas. Lived in swamps that are now Coal bearing areas in the central U.S. and East coast. Dated to between 298 ~ 315 million years ago. I found it while walking a large creek bank that is primarily Sand Stone.

 

[KeithB]

Now that is neat! I live in a city in the SW corner of Indiana right across the Ohio river from Kentucky and Illinois. Part of the Illinois basin, coal mining all around us. Even had mining engineering at the University where I worked until the collapse of mining 25 - 30 years ago. Saw a few fossils but nothing quite like that. Great find!

 

[Brad]

What a neat find. Makes a good walk even better.

 

[gman]

That’s a cool find.

 

[358156 hp]

It is cool.

BTW, "off topic"? Here?

 

[fiver]

someone say they needed some off topic?!?!?!???
well here I am..

that would be cool as heck to find, it would keep me busy forever trying to figure out what it was.3.3.3.3.3.3.3.3. Jax say's hello

 

[pokute]

Very cool. When they lined thr L.A. river with concrete, they dug through fossil beds in Culver City. We used to find fossilized shark teeth in the backfill next to the river. They looked like this:



many years later, I learned that the reason we seemed to find so many shark's teeth was because every carcass decomposed and left hundreds of teeth. They were the most common easily identifiable fossil.