Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 73A
Abstract
Cone maturity is as follows- cone A, taphonomically degraded (picture 1); cone B, mature (picture 2). Cone B contained a single golden coprolite within its scales (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 taphonomically degraded.
Cone B is Mature, containing a single golden coprolite.
Mounted peels were made by William C. Darrah.
Subject
Mature ConeDegraded Cone
Strobilus
Cordaites
Arthopods
Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian)
Coal Ball Peels
Golden Coprolite
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 73A. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187666.