Calamite

This specimen was found in assemblege with Calamites Cisti and is believed to be a top plume of some sort situated atop the main stem. The white encrustation on the plume leaves may represent fossilized pollen.

Rock Type: Sandstone; fine-grained
Formation: Kanawha
Interval: Coalburg seam
Age: Middle Pennsylvanian Period, approx. 307 million years.

Location: Nicholas County, West Virginia; Ramp Run Surface Mine #1, located about 12 miles north of Summersville, West Virginia. Turn west off route 19 north of Summersville onto Spruce Run Road.