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[TexasRockin91]

Hi! I was curious as to what type of wood this is! I’m thinking elm but still I’m not sure. If someone has an idea or knows if it’s worth getting appraised it would be very appreciated! The specimen is about 6ft tall and about a foot-ish wide.

[SteveB]

First if its 6 ft high a close up won't help identify it. Plus this is a mineral forum, NOT a fossil forum, you need to find a botany forum, or paleobotany resource as it may not even be a modern species and most tree identification I’ve encountered requires access to leaves to for our various growth structures. You are asking in the wrong place.

[James Catmur]

We are mineral experts, not fossil ones. So try a fossil forum

That said, find out where the specimen was found and then look at the species alive in that geological period. When I spot fossils I need to know the age of the strata they are found in as that helps with an ID. For example, in Fife, Scotland it is Devonian or Carboniferous, the fish I found was on the boundary or late Devonian. In Derbyshire, England it is Carboniferous so the trilobite I found must be from that era. I live in an area that is Jurrasic, so the coprolites we find in the fields near the village must be Jurrasic. The Plesisaur I found will be too. From the rock strata I can work out the species (sometimes).