Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 57
Abstract
Cone maturity is as follows- cone A, mature (picture 1, bottom); cone B, taphonomically degraded (picture 1, top); cone C, taphonomically degraded (picture 2). Cone A contained 33 golden coprolites deposited in string formation (picture 3).
Description
These images were used in the research for a master's thesis from the Texas A&M University Dept. of Geology and Geophysics (Date of submission: May 2020).Images were taken from slides on loan from the Harvard Paleobotanical Herbarium.
Cone A is a Mature Cone containing 33 golden coprolites.
Cones B and C are taphonomically degraded.
Mounted peels were made by William C. Darrah.
Subject
Degraded ConeMature Cone
Strobilus
Cordaites
Arthopods
Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian)
Coal Ball Peels
Golden Coprolite
String
Coal balls
Cones (Botany)
Geology, Strategraphic--Carboniferous
Geology, Stratigraphic--Pennsylvanian
Conifers, Fossil
Citation
(2019). Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 57. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187756.