Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 58A
Abstract
Cone maturity is as follows- cone A, mature (picture 1); cone B, mature (picture 2); cone C, mature (picture 5, left); cone D, mature (picture 5, right), cone E, basal section (picture 6), cone F, taphonomically degraded (picture 7). A single golden coprolite was identified in cone A and 34 golden coprolites were identified in cone B (picture 4). Picture 3 depicts pollen grains of Florinites with a ruptured trilete mark. Plate 58A is a successive peel taken from the same coal ball as other plates labeled 58.
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, B, C and D are Mature Cones.
Cone E is a basal section.
Cone F is taphonomically degraded.
Cone A contained a single golden coprolite and cone B contained 34 golden coprolites.
Mounted peels were made by William C. Darrah.
Subject
Mature ConeDegraded Cone
Basal Section
Strobilus
Cordaites
Arthopods
Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian)
Coal Ball Peels
Golden Coprolites
Florinites
Ruptured Trilete Mark
Coal balls
Cones (Botany)
Geology, Strategraphic--Carboniferous
Geology, Stratigraphic--Pennsylvanian
Conifers, Fossil
Citation
Lakeram, Scott (2019). Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 58A. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187757.