Fossil
Wood News
This is a series of brief treatises based
on own finds, unless indicated otherwise,
of fossil wood, mainly Palaeozoic, including specimens found
enclosed in Permian chert,
every one of them reporting some
observation, idea, interpretation, or discovery
apparently not yet published in the
scientific literature (except for own publications)
and
occasionally contradicting
established wisdom.
Every treatise consisting of text, pictures, and references is
confined to a concise format of one
or two printed pages, thus differing much from
the lengthy papers in scientific journals. This is meant
to be a means of
spreading information quickly in easily comprehensible quanta, which
would be virtually
impossible with the conventional ways of publication.
Some contributions which had been accessible only via "Misconceptions"
have been included in the below list.
The separation of the fossils into "Permian Chert" and "Fossil Wood" is to some degree arbitrary. Ferns
have been listed under Permian Chert News but trees and shrubs
(partially) consisting of coniferous-type wood like the seed ferns have
been included here.
List of issues sorted according to subjects Click on
the number
"Wood crystals"
1.
"Wood crystals"
30. "Wood crystals" Part 2
Silicification phenomena
2.
On the origin of white spots in fossil wood
21.
Degradation and preservation of
palaeozoic wood
28. Apparition in the wood
36. Black and white stains in silicified wood
42. What cracks can reveal about petrified wood formation
44. Fossil wood aspects
The mite coprolite craze
3.
Oribatid mite coprolite sightings – a transient craze ?
4.
Alleged coprolites of "unknown creatures" replace
alleged oribatid mite coprolites
5.
Dubious oribatid mite
coprolites once more: Comment on Z. Feng et al.
(2010)
6.
Alleged coprolites - Remnants of decayed tissue
7.
Alleged arthropod coprolites
re-interpreted
8.
Palaeozoic wood rot mistaken for oribatid mite coprolites
11.
Antarctic shit
12.
Comment on: The Late Palaeozoic tree
fern Psaronius ... by R. Rössler
14.
Alleged arthropod borings in fossil wood and their possible formation
16.
Elusive creatures in fossil wood – Clean-up in the wake of a
waning obsession
18.
Cell-size clots in bennettitalean tissue: No oribatid
mite coprolites
20.
Wood rot in the Permian coniferous tree Plyophyllioxylon
22.
No mite coprolites inside Vertebraria
and Australoxylon
wood
23.
Oribatid mite coprolites: Result of
wishful thinking
24.
Palaeozoic mites that never existed
26.
One piece of petrified wood challenging the
"state of the science"
38.
Permian wood implications: no charcoal, no creatures
The charcoal illusion
9.
Permian wood misinterpreted as fossil charcoal
35. Silicified wood mimicking charcoal
37. Pith rays in Permian wood
38.
Permian wood implications: no charcoal, no creatures
40. Black fossil wood aspect caused by fire or water ?
41. Black fossil wood bleached
Pith
27. Pith in petrified wood from the Kyffhäuser mountains
31. Pith in petrified wood from the Permian Doehlen Basin
36. Black and white stains in silicified wood
37. Pith rays in Permian wood
43. Permian wood with wide pith rays
44. Fossil wood aspects
Calamites (see also Permian Chert News)
13.
Calamite fragment with peculiar details
15.
How the largest known anatomically preserved calamite was discovered in
Chemnitz
37. Pith rays in Permian wood
43. Permian wood with wide pith rays
Cracks
16.
Elusive creatures in fossil wood – Clean-up in the wake of a
waning obsession
17.
Fossil shrinkage crack patterns
25. Volcanism and fossilisation
29. Alleged fossil wood burrows
37. Pith rays in Permian wood
39. Crazy cracks
42. What cracks can reveal about petrified wood formation
Less-common trees
10.
An uncommon type of Syringodendron
19. A
small seed fern stem with peculiar structure
32. Permian or Mesozoic stem
with enigmatic structure
33. Permian wood with uncommon details