Arkansas Fossil Fern Identification
Fossil Fern is a realistic Arkansas fossil profile built around frond imprint from swamp forests preserved in shale and siltstone. In this state, success usually comes from learning river gravels, loess bluffs, and shell-bearing cuts, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Key Traits
- ●pinnate leaflet pattern
- ●carbonized film
- ●coal-measure shale matrix
- ●Check river gravels, loess bluffs, and shell-bearing cuts
Era
Carboniferous
Type
plant
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