Cordaitean Predation Photos 2019: Unmounted Peels, Wild Cones. Peel 19A

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2020

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Cone maturity is as follows- cone A, mature (picture 1); cone B, basal section (picture 2, left); cone C, basal section (picture 2, right). Cone A contained a single golden coprolite within its scales. Plate 19A is a successive peel taken from the same coal ball as other plates labeled 19.

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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 unmounted peels of coal balls.
Cone A is an mature cone
Cone B and C are basal sections.
Peels were made by Anne Raymond, the advisor for this thesis.

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Mature Cone, Basal Section, Strobilus, Cordaites, Arthopods, Desmoinian North American Stage (Desmoinesian), Coal Ball Peels, Golden Coprolite

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