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West Virginia
New River Gorge Coal-Measure Exposures, Fayette County, WV
Fossil site Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: fern impressions, Lepidodendron, Calamites.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Pennsylvanian plant fossils in coal-measure shales of the Appalachian Plateau
Pennsylvanian fossil flora well documented in WV Geological Survey reports for the coal fields.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Steep slopes, traffic, unstable shale
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