A fossil fern from the classic fossil collecting location of St. Clair, Pennsylvania. Over the years countless fossil plants have been uncovered by fossil hunters in the coal mine spoil piles of St. Clair. I believe the location is now closed. This specimen is about 4 inches long.
Location: St. Clair, Pennsylvania
Collector: S. Stepanski
I cracked open some sand stone and found this weird snake looking fossil. Help me out here.
Fossil Collector: Andy S.
Location: Durham, England
Editor: We like it when we can be so positive about something. This is certainly a fossil calamites from the swamps of the Carboniferous Period some 300- 360 million years ago. Calamites are an extinct horsetail plant that grew to giant proportions reaching 30 -100 feet tall. Durham was a different place back then!
These pieces of fossil wood from the Bruneau area of southern Idaho look like pieces of driftwood. The petrified wood weathers of out buttes and badlands in the area and is probably Miocene in age. Much of southern Idaho was covered by ash falls from the eruptions of the Bruneau-Jarbridge volcano about that time which likely helped to preserve the wood. Microscopic diatom fossils on the surface confirm that they were floating around in some river or lake ages ago. The fossils are about 3 -4 inches long.
Location: Near Bruneau, Idaho
Collector: Scott Stepanski
A screen load of petrified wood collected on a Peace River, Florida Fossil Expedition.
Photo: Courtesy Mark Rentz
Location: Peace River, Florida
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