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Ctenocrinus
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Petrified or Fossil Wood
Class: Plant
Age: Pennsylvanian
Randolph County, West Virginia
9.6 x 4.3 inches
Owner: Ken Clarke
Notes: West Virginia has some of the best plant fossils in the world but true petrified wood in West Virginia is rare. To be classed as petrified, minerals must have replaced the cellular structure leaving i
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Stromatolite
Cryptzoon proliferum
Class: Algae
Age: Cambrian
Sheperdstown, WV
12 inches across
Owner: Marshall University
Notes: Oldest Fossils In West Virginia
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Fossils of West Virginia Volume 1
Vertebrates & Invertebrates
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Age: 2007
8.5x11 inches
Owner: by Dr. Hassan Amjad
Notes: 544 pages full color
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Diadectes
Diadectes
Class: Amphibia
Age: Permian / Dunkard
Roane County, WV
4.3 x 3 inches
Owner: WVGS
Notes: Very rare skull and only one known from West Virginia
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Early Amphibian
Greererpeton burkemorani
Class: Amphibia
Age: Mississippian
Greer, Monongalia County, WV
7 x 5.5 inches
Owner: WVGS
Notes: This was a new genus & new species.
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Fossils of West Virginia Volume 2
Fossil Plants
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Age: 2007
8.5x11 inches
Owner: by Dr. Hassan Amjad
Notes: 350 pages full color
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Trace Fossil
Bifungites
Class: Ichnofossils
Age: Devonian
Randolph County, WV
1.5 inches
Owner: Garton
Notes: Very rare and unusual, Presumed to be a worm borrow
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Peccary
Platygonus compressus
Class: Mammalia
Age: Pleistocene
Monroe County, WV
11 x 7.5 inches
Owner: WVGS
Notes: Skull & Complete Skeleton Carbon 14 Dates At 22,620 Years
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Trilobite
Trimerus vanuxemi (Hall)
Class: Trilobita
Age: Devonian
Greenbrier County, WV
5.5 x 2.4 inches
Owner: WVGS
Notes: One of the largest from the state.
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Ground Sloth Claws
Megalonyx jeffersonii
Class: Mammalia
Age: Pleistocene
Haynes Cave, Monroe County, WV
260 mm x 150 mm
Owner: WVGES (donated by Ray Garton)
Notes: This specimen was described by Thomas Jefferson in 1799.
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Mastodon Tooth
Mammut americanum
Class: Mammalia
Age: Pleistocene
Bowden Cave, Randolph County, WV
75mm x 70mm (3 in. x 2.8 in.)
Owner: WVGES (donated by Ray Garton)
Notes: Partial mastodon tooth.
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Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach)
Class: Mammalia
Age: Pleistocene
Little Creek, WV
240 mm x 90 mm x 175 mm (9.5 in x 3.5 in x 6.9 in)
Owner: WVGES (donated by WVU Geology Dept.
Notes: Large, well-preserved woolly mammoth tooth.
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