Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 08A
Abstract
A string of 3 golden coprolites composed of mascerated Florinites near cone A (picture 1 and 3), both cone A (picture 2) and cone B (picture 4) are mature. A pollen mass can be found in the matrix above the coprolite string (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.
Cones A and B are Mature cones.
Pollen in coprolites are highly macerated.
Golden coprolites are deposited in a string and located near cone A.
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
Pollen Mass In Matrix
Coal balls
Coprolites
Cones (Botany)
Geology, Strategraphic--Carboniferous
Geology, Stratigraphic--Pennsylvanian
Conifers, Fossil
Citation
Lakeram, Scott (2019). Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Mounted Peels, Harvard Collection. Plate 08A. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /187769.