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Coal Measure Plant Fossils, southern West Virginia

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: Fern, Lepidodendron bark.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Pennsylvanian coal measures

Abundant Carboniferous plant fossils in coal country.

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