West Virginia Fossil Fern Identification
Fossil Fern is a realistic West Virginia fossil profile built around frond imprint from swamp forests preserved in shale and siltstone. In this state, success usually comes from learning roadcuts through limestone and shale, coal spoils, and stream gravels, 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 roadcuts through limestone and shale, coal spoils, and stream gravels
Era
Carboniferous
Type
plant
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