Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 02
Abstract
A pollen mass located in the center of a mature cordaitean cone (picture 1), 2 brown coprolites were identified in the matrix with one displayings possible bite marks (picture 2 and 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.
Florinites
Mature Cone
2 brown coprolite located in the matrix one of which displaying evidence of coprophagy.
Mounted peels were made by William C. Darrah.
Subject
Pollen ConeMature Cone
Strobilus
Cordaites
Arthopods
Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian)
Coal Ball Peels
Brown Coprolites
Golden Coprolites
Coal balls
Coprolites
Cones (Botany)
Geology, Strategraphic--Carboniferous
Geology, Stratigraphic--Pennsylvanian
Conifers, Fossil
Citation
(2019). Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 02. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187703.