West Virginia Seed Fern Frond Identification

Seed Fern Frond is a realistic West Virginia fossil profile built around frond impression from extinct seed ferns in coal-age shales. 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 frond
  • carbon film
  • associated coal or shale matrix
  • Check roadcuts through limestone and shale, coal spoils, and stream gravels

Era

Pennsylvanian

Type

plant

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