2007-02-20 16:02:59 · 4 answers · asked by buddy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I'll take a guess that you might have found a Lepidodendron fossil. See if these photos look anything like what you found:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=lepidodendron&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
2007-02-20 16:35:51 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite possibly a fish. I've seen a fossil fish the size of a sardine in 6 inch cores drilled for coal exploration. The scales were still shining and the backbone was still visible as a line of white cones similar to those in a can of salmon, though smaller. This was from the central Queensland coal fields where the coal is younger than the Carboniferous. Fossils are common around coal and oil shale.
2007-02-21 03:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely a tree (Sigillaria or something similar). The bark was scale-like on many of the seed fern trees of that time, and they are very common fossils around coal beds.
Here are links to a few pictures of such fossils.
http://www.musei.unipd.it/geologia/images/sigillaria.jpg
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fossils/gallery/specimen/9671090.jpg
http://www.nhmmaastricht.nl/textonly-nl/afb/nhmafb10.jpg
2007-02-21 00:42:15 · answer #3 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a fish
2007-02-21 00:43:08 · answer #4 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋