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Rean.c

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Found this fishing was thinking it looks like scales or a tree of some sort.?? IMG_1198.JPG IMG_1195.JPG IMG_1193.JPG IMG_1196.JPG


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looks like an ancient tire track to me haha. all joking aside though i have no idea but it is a very interesting.
 

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Definitely looks like scales of some sort. I would guess that it is the bark of some kind of woody plant, but only because fossilized skin is quite rare. Cool find for sure!
 

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It's very likely a bark imprint from a Lepidodendron trunk. That's a great find; during the Carboniferous time period (about 325 million years ago) Lepidodendron trees were one of the plants that made up the vast forested swamps that covered much of the planet and eventually formed the coal seams that we now mine. The bark and leaf imprints are typically found in the layers above and below the coal seams, but it's still a great fossil find because in general plant matter only fossilized rarely. Congrats!

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Rean.c

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It seems like the impressions are spaced apart more then all the things I've looked up.


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It's a petrified rover track from ancient visitors. Or, it could be that plant thing. Either way I would be stoked to find it. Congrats.
 

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It's cool whatever it is.
 

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I didn't break it up any, found it on a river bed that had dried up during the dry season


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I found it just like the picture shows. And I'm leaning towards maybe a unknown plant. Can't find anything that looks like it


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Haha ohh! I'm stupid sometimes... I live on the east coast of Canada. Cape Breton Island


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