Bear Valley Strip Mine Fossil Trip '05

Beautiful Copperhead we saw on the way there, I so wanted to catch him

All the fossils I brought home (way to many)

Coal seam in the wall

Huge boulders in the cliff called Concretions, and made of Siderite

Me next to a huge Cordaites bark impression in the wall

Big millipede I found

Alethopteris fern

Cordaites tree leaf

Beautiful Cordaites bark impression

Closeup of Cordaites bark

Cordaites bark I brought home

2 nice fern leaves

Lepidodendron tree bark imprint, excellent detail

Close up of detail

Awesome Neuropteris fern tip

Nice Neuropteris fern leaves

Another awesome Neuropteris

Neuropteris leaves and stem

Beautiful Pecopteris fern

Another nice Pecopteris

Huge Pecopteris fern biggest one I have ever found

Very uncommon Sigillaria tree bark

Very uncommon Sphenophyllum bush leaf, on the right side

Neuropteris stem

Unidentified fern maybe Odontopteris?

Unidentified bark impression, no clue at all