Atlas Of Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of the Central Appalachian Coalfields: Volume 2

By Thomas F. McLoughlin

This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in the central Appalachian region. The fossils are sorted by groups and the specimens sampling site locations are listed by coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of fossil types a

• Language: English
• Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
• Release date: Oct 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781956780857

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Atlas of Pennsylvaian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of the Central Appalachian Coalfields: Volume 2

Copyright © 2022 by Thomas F. McLoughlin

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This book could not have been completed without the dedicated help of Dr. Shusheng Hu, who is a paleobotonist and Collections Manager Division of Paleobotony at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut and Dr. Christopher Cleal, who is a paleobotanist with the museum in Wales in the UK. I also thank Dr. Bill Di Michele, Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, for his review of the manuscript and helping with some of the fossil identifications. Dr. Jack Wittry, who is associated with the Science and Education division of The Field Museum Chicago Illinois lent his assistance in fossil identification.

I also want to thank my wife, Beth, for her patience and tolerance for the numerous boxes of fossil specimens in our home. She was very relieved when I donated the collection to the Virginia Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum in New Haven Connecticut.

All of the fossils listed in the plates were collected by and photographed by the author except as noted.

FOREWORD

I have spent the last thirty-six years in and around the bituminous coal mines of southwestern Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. When coal miners learn I am a geologist, the most popular question has been what are the kinds of fossils we see in a mine roof? I give my best reply, but it is difficult to relate to them that the plant impressions represent vegetation that grew in peat-forming swamps millions of years ago. Most people recognize the fern-like fossils, but have been confused about the identity of a