Amazing Plant Fossils from Pennsylvania

[@Thereischeeseindeed]

I've literally never been more interested in fossils. Thanks for this amazingly informative video!

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Glad you enjoyed! This video was a blast to produce and I'd love to do more like this in the future. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@PennLapidary]

I've been waiting for this one!

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Meeee tooooo!!!! LOL

[@chasemaloy8372]

Howdy there dad (actual father btw)

[@PennLapidary]

@@chasemaloy8372 Hi there son of mine 💙 Thanks for watching with me buddy.

[@outdooradventureswithfayde6832]

Great animation and illustrations! Very good video! These remind me of alot of fossils I found near the Mason Creek area in Illinois as a kid. Fossils of ancient plant life is so fascinating! You put so much effort into your videos, I appreciate and enjoy them very much. 😊

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Thank you, Fayde Tublack! I had a little fun on the artistic side with this one and I'd love to do more with illustrations and animation. Your Mason Creek fossils sound super cool and it's always incredible to find ancient traces of life. So neat that you got to do that as a kid! Thanks again for watching and I've got more fossil videos coming up soon!

[@NewZealandRocksDownunder]

Amazing documentary Loved the fossils and the extra info. The next David Attenborough right here.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Wow, thanks! You're generous, making documentaries would be dreamy! Thanks for the feedback and for watching!

[@GeoRockNerd]

Wow well done! Such good info and great illustrations! ❤️

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun doing research for this one. Thanks for watching!

[@AnnaWoods-rk8zb]

I've only just seen this video and noticed it's two years ago you put this out but it is fantastic I love the time you took to show such details x this is my new obsession as finding fossils in new area I've moved to I'm not clued up yet but learning and this video has helped so much love all your videos and inspiration❤

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Thanks for the awesome feedback. This was one of my earlier videos and it was a blast to make. I was gifted such a generous box of those fossils, I had to do a ton of research to find out what I had. I'm glad that you found it valuable and I hope it helps on your fossil finding adventures. Wishing you luck and lots of rocks, thanks for watching, and cheers!

[@jimv.661]

Excellent professional video! Good as anything I've seen.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Thank you, Jim! That's very kind, it was a fun project to research. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch.

[@kerinl.holmstrom1810]

Hey Karen, this was awesome! You know us rock hounds like fossils too! I don't know of any "RH" that doesn't have 1 to several fossils in their collections. 😁🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Oh Karin, you know it! It's too tempting not to have some cool fossils in the mix. It's really neat when folks send you the fun stuff they've found and you get to do the sleuthing to figure out what they are! Thanks for enjoying and watching!

[@juliemckenna514]

Great video! Amazing, fascinating and so interesting. ❤️

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Thank you, Julie, for your generous words! It's so incredible to handle such old pieces of geologic history and a pleasure to share! Thanks so much for watching!

[@oldgamerchick]

Very nice collection. I am a rockhound/fossil hunter. I look for pretty rocks and amazing fossils. I really enjoyed your video.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

That's great that you're into fossils and rockhounding. What kinds of things do you get to find? It was a real pleasure to work with these fossils for this video and such a learning experience. Thanks for watching and cheers!

[@oldgamerchick]

@@OzoneFineArtVentures I have been working in a road cut down from my little house in the country. The area has a lot of clay and mud stone. Many of the fossils I find in this site are coated with Hematite which is an iron oxide. The layer of Hematite is very thin so the fossils are very fragile. They aren't from the Cretaceous Period but, newer era. The land I live on has a ton of fossils but, my landlord won't let me dig more holes 😂. I have found many things like a shark tooth. A jaw with teeth but, what I don't know. The fossil forum thinks any stone with iron in it isn't a fossil. But, here in Texas we get all kinds if stones. They are different depending on where you live. But, this place I am hunting has mostly corals. I did find a couple of by-valves. I am thinking they are oysters. Very cool looking but, very fragile so I gotta be careful as I clean them. There are thin little bits that look like a possible Bryzoa (sorry spelling) or a different coral type. I do know one of the corals is called Syringopora from the Eocene I think. I am hoping to learn more about this new group. The land I live on also has corals I have found a Brain Coral and a lot of sponges. Here it is different as many of the fossils have been become solid Hematite as far as I can tell with out cutting them open. I think some of them are older cause they are not so fragile. I am so new at this. I have lived here almost 5 years and it took me 3 months to find out what these rocks were. Hematite is the only iron oxide that will streak red on a paper or unglazed tile. It's a most unusual mineral. It can be all three different rocks. Igneous, metamorphic, and rats can't remember the 3rd type. I could go on about the fossils I am finding but, I don't want to write a novel like Gone With the Wind😂. I will ad this before I say thank you and good bye. Most of Texas was under water during the Cretaceous Period so you can find almost any marine life fossils here. Thank you have a Blessed day good bye for now..

[@406findings]

I love plant fossils, great stuff from Jason 👍and if you want some stuff from Montana I'd gladly send some rocks your way.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Yes, plant fossils are so neat! Have you been able to hunt for much? You've got some seriously killer fossils up your way, I know that! I'd love to do a swap with you. Message me and we'll get a trade going!

[@dustinfindsrocks]

What a cool video!!! Now I wanna send both of you guys stuff!!!

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Hey Dustin, thanks for all the wonderful feedback. I'd love to do a swap with you, your stuff is incredible ya know! Message me and we can get the ball rollin!

[@paigelee6321]

Interesting thank you 😊

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Thanks for watching, Paige! Always a pleasure!

[@FrankBoston]

I have some gorgeous ones from the Carboniferous too. They're just like those in Pennsylvania, but mine are from NE Oklahoma.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Nice, they're so amazing! It's great that there's such a nice fossil record for us to find. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@Cliffwalkerrockhounding]

Well done! Great animations, descriptions and interpretations. I want in on this $15 a box shipping! Nice gift box Penn RH.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Haa haa, sorry about the shipping there! It's a good deal for a fat box of goodies for sure here in the states. Thanks for watching!

[@ivyjuneburrows]

I don't know what the dialogue is like in this video, but the captions are really off. Can you enable auto-generated English captions, please?

[@Dprxnce]

I dont think he understands you, he just liked your comment lmao

[@swapnakongakonga6013]

Can you make video of how this was made

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Thank you for watching. Making a video about how they were made is out of my wheelhouse. These were fossils sent to me, so not my expertise. I'm sure a google search will turn up lots of info though! Cheers!

[@dannyvanstraelen3273]

There where no palm species in the Carbon age, nor where there trees, all plants where ferns and the only way of there reproduction where spore. Often these ferns are described as trees, due how huge they where and there trunk like appearance Which is logical as there where no pollinators or birds, the only moving life forms relative small fish like reptiles/amphibians, worms/snail like creatures and insects (by the way the first flying organisms). And spore reproduction is interesting as it contains the male and female reproduction organs (still works like that today). First of all it needs wind or a catapult shoot of (It's proven that there are still fern species today that use 1.5 kilonewton to shoot of spore), to move from the mother plant to it's place of birth. When spore lands somewhere, it can hibernate for a very long time until conditions are right, the only thing it actually needs is water and soil, better sad high moisture, than the spore will develop a sporangia, this looks like a small leaf with male and female genitalia, and water is used for the fertilization, once when that stage is done, the actual new plant (fern) appears. If you find feather like fossil impressions, these could be the spore bags of the plant, although what you have is leaf impression. I was lucky finding some huge plume like spore bags (60cm Long) from Lepidodendron a few years ago, here on Belgian coal mime slag heap coming from 700m deep, witch all belong to that super continent you where referring to. What even is more interesting, and a lot of people don't know that, is that in coal crushed or chemically dissolve, and looked at under a magnifying device, you find the most beautiful spore, who's shape is super intact due to it's small size. And as spore is today, you're looking at a sphere like object with spikes on it, the most beautiful fossils you ever will see. Reason why ferns became so big at the time is a merge of factors, first is environment, young earth was covered in a greenhouse effect, that created high humidity. There is also a theory that the rotation of earth was much faster than today, and oxygen levels where much higher, almost 10% higher than today. And the last factor is biological evolution, like physics there is always action and reaction. Today there is a fern, tomorrow there is another life form, ranging from micro organism to huge life form that eats that plant. Then there are two ways to go, or you adapt and make your self uninteresting again, you use it for a better reproduction (think of pollinators), and not forget adapt to change in environment, if you don't, you get extinct. Something that is sad in a sentence, but in most cases takes millions of years, except with big catastrophic events, like meteorite impacts, then the extinction level is at is highest, but life always find a way to adapt and proceed , and that is called evolution…