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Re: Found Fossil..CYCAD?

Posted by Peter on August 14, 1998 at 13:45:07:

In Reply to: Found Fossil posted by Marion on August 13, 1998 at 21:21:28:

Hello Marion... nice find. I found it so intriguing that I discussed your find with some paleobotany people and they just told me this... Peter

> I'd guess you have a piece from a cycadeoid (Bennettitales) trunk.
> They are an extinct group of "cycad-like" Mesozoic gymnosperm
> plants. The larger triangular marks would be foliage leaf scars,
> the smaller clusters are "flowerlike" axillary fertile shoots.
>
> see, for example:
> http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/c-like.htm


Click the direct link below... Peter

>
> There's a [blurry] picture of what I had had in mind at
> ,

The image at the left...Peter

> but that
> species of Cycadeoidea doesn't seem to show one axillary shoot per
> foliage leaf like yours does. The whole group was pretty diverse,
> however.
>
> Anyhow, it clearly looks to me like a piece of some sort of stout
> plant stem with triangular leaf bases and axillary branch shoots.
> Maybe try some books on paleobotany?
>
> cheers

Hope this gives you a trail... Good luck!

Peter


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