Martin Family Fossil Collection
Page 3: Fossils from Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Fern . 
Imprint of the reproductive organs or Cones of one of the Lycopod trees. 
 
  
  Leaf imprints, possibly Cordaites on the one side along with something that looks suspiciously thorny on the reverse. 
Artisia is the root of a Cordaite tree.  A primitive conifer. It has parallel ridges running perpendicular to the root. 
It may just be my imagination but this looks suspiciously like some sort of vertebra to me.
 
 
  Piece of shale showing track marks of a millipede. (Clearly seen in enlarged area).
Unidentified fossil.  Same size as the Calamites but without the distinctive parallel ridges. 
Help!  This is my largest fossil from Joggins. And I don't know what it is.  It looks like a piece of tree bark, but it could just as well be the imprint of a riverbed.  The entire piece is approximately one foot square and no thicker than half an inch at its widest.  Suggestions are most welcome.  Emmanuel Maicas has suggested that this might be an impression of a Cordaites leaf, which he has seen reach several meters in length.
 
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