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East, Pennsylvania
St. Clair PA
White fern fossil banks
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: Neuropteris, Pecopteris) on black shale, seed fern fragments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Pennsylvanian coal-swamp shale above the anthracite seams, famous worldwide for white pyrophyllite fern fronds on jet-black rock
Decades of documented collecting and museum specimens; fossilguy.com and club trip reports name finds from the Burma Road dump
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Unstable shale spoil slopesActive mining land, sharp rock
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