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Hillsboro coral roadcuts, Pocahontas County

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: lithostrotion corals, brachiopods.

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

Why this spot

Mississippian limestone cuts along US 219 with large colonial corals

Named fossil roadcuts in West Virginia collecting write-ups.

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