Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 28B
Abstract
Cone maturity is as follows- cone A, immature (picture 1); cone B, immature (picture 2); cone C, mature (picture 3). Cone C contained a single golden coprolite. Plate 28B is a successive peel taken from the same coal ball as other plates labeled 28.
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.
Cones A and B are an Immature cones
Cone C is a Mature cone.
A single golden coprolite was identified in cone C.
Mounted peels were made by William C. Darrah.
Subject
Immature ConeMature Cone
Strobilus
Cordaites
Arthopods
Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian)
Coal Ball Peel
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 28B. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187716.