Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 11
Abstract
A mature cordaitean cone (picture 1) containing 10 small golden coprolites (picture 2). A large oblong golden and a brown coprolite coprolite possibly produced by an insect is located in the matrix.
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.
Mature Cone
The image contains 10 small golden coprolites in the picture cone, 1 large golden coprolite and 1 brown corpolite in the matrix.
Mounted peels were made by William C. Darrah.
Subject
Pollen ConeMature Cone
Strobilus
Cordaites
Arthopods
Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian)
Coal Ball Peels
Golden Coprolites
String
Large Golden Coprolite
Insect
Brown 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 11. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187685.