Daily Archives: April 15, 2012

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A scale tree root in its own soil (Upper Carboniferous of Ohio)

Last week a local man, Larry Stauffer, brought in the above fossil for identification and then kindly donated it to the department. It is part of the root system of Lepidodendron, the “scale tree” of the Carboniferous Period. What is … Continue reading

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