KC Plant Fossils!?

My Super-secret sandstone fossil spot on a BlueSprings hwy! Shared with me years ago by a very generous Jackson County person, and now visited only very rarely. The golden and tan-coloured sandstone hosts a great variety of plant fossils. Most are different sizes and shapes of ferns, but the rocky remains of the leaves of other similar things, including trees and shrubs are to be found here.

My Visit was a bit nippy for any real collecting, but it was cool to dig through the loose stuff while fescue is thin (relatively) and the Sericea is under winter's control. Today I found several exciting stems of ferns some softer stems and larger broad-leaves. Most of the rough plates are void of such impressions, or display only a few with little contrast, but chipping the edge of a rock here will likely reveal something good that would have been missed otherwise. My favorite was a small fern's. It is not as defined as many that I discovered, but has a very pleasant, natural shape/curve. The tip's still partially covered- this makes for a cool effect! The set of leaves is the only one on the large sandstone block, and is ~two inches in length. COOL!