Fossil ID request

[1320]

What the heck is this thing?!

 

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[old digger]

It looks a lot like fossilized palm wood.

 

[GatorBoy]

That thing is funny.
It reminds me of a cactus but probably palm.

 

[GatorBoy]

Well maybe it is cactus..I was kinda kidding

 

[Harry Pristis]

It is from an Upper Paleozoic (Pennsylvanian?) lycopod, a vascular, tree-like plant. Compare with Lepidodendron.

 

[yakker]

I still kinda think it looks like a chunk of cactus- a friend had a piece that looked just like that. And this is what I found for Lepidodendron- which has a different dimple patter, from my perspective. I definitely could be wrong. JMHO... Yakker

 

[yakker]

I take it all back. My friend is an idiot.
Can't find one (!) thing to justify my pal's claim.
Sorry Harry. Yak

 

[Tigger]

Gorgeous! Did you find it in KY?

 

[outdoorfunblonde]

That thing is funny.
It reminds me of a cactus but probably palm.

My mother has a rain stick made out of some kinda wood looks just like that... the pattern and shape to it...
Not sure what kinda wood, LOL

 

[Harry Pristis]

My mother has a rain stick made out of some kinda wood looks just like that... the pattern and shape to it...
Not sure what kinda wood, LOL

I've seen rain sticks made from ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) skeletons.

 

[huntress104]

What the heck is this thing?!

Hey 1320 I found one of those things too in a creek in Western Ky

 

[Tigger]

Awesome Huntress!