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Petrified Wood

Rays or Crosswise Cells in Late Carboniferous Age Pyrite Material

2022-05-28
By: Clint
On: May 28, 2022
In: Limestone, Plants
Tagged: Petrified Wood

Crosswise cells or rays are typical but often hidden components of the vascular tissue in plans. Fossil plants occur in the shale layers below the Brush Creek limestone. These sometimes preserve incredible detail, including detailed carbon films from plants living over 300 million years ago. While shale plant fossils areRead More →

Fossilized Carboniferous Taproot

2021-03-23
By: Clint
On: March 23, 2021
In: Plants, Shale
Tagged: Petrified Wood, Pine Creek Marine Zone

I have found very little fossilized woody material in the Late Carboniferous strata locally. It most certainly exists, I just haven’t been lucky enough to recover any. That changed yesterday with the recovery of a fossilized taproot. The specimen was found in-situ in shale immediately above the Pine Creek limestone.Read More →

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  • Cephalopod Evolution in Action—The Morphometric Differences of Metacoceras and its Descendant Tainoceras (Hyatt, 1883)
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  • Peripristis semicircularis
  • A Possible Mahoningoceras from the Portersville Limestone (Kasimovian), Brooke County, West Virginia
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  • Rays or Crosswise Cells in Late Carboniferous Age Pyrite Material
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  • Petalodus – The Lost Holotypes
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  • Endelocrinus murrysvillensis, a Species of Crinoid Described From the Brush Creek Limestone Published in 1967
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