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Union Chapel Mine. Evidence of Change Through Time. Evidence of Change Found at Union Chapel Mine. Cyclothem Tetrapod Trackways Invertebrate Trackways and Traces Plants (back counter) Marine Invertebrates (back counter) Insects and Arachnids (not pictured). Cyclothem. Vertebrate Trackway.
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Union Chapel Mine Evidence of Change Through Time
Evidence of Change Found at Union Chapel Mine • Cyclothem • Tetrapod Trackways • Invertebrate Trackways and Traces • Plants (back counter) • Marine Invertebrates (back counter) • Insects and Arachnids (not pictured)
Myriapod Trace Diplichnites gouldi – closeup of UCM – 393.
More Invertebrate Traces Kouphichnium aspodon (right) – the locomotion trace of a Xiphosuran. Arborichnus repetitus (left) – a Xiphosuran resting trace.
Undichna – A Fishy Trace Undichna, a fish swimming trace.
Tales Told by the Evidence of Union Chapel Mine • Time Frame • Coal Swamp • Alabama During the Pennsylvanian • Pennsylvanian Global Map • Plate Tectonics
References • Cyclothem - http://www.msstate.edu/dept/GeoSciences/CT/TIG/WEBSITES/LOCAL/Spring2002/Gregory_Harris/cyclothem.JPG • Trackway of Nanopus reidiae, Myriapod Trace, Kouphichnium, Arborichnus, Undichna - Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama edited by Buta, R.J., A.K. Rindsberg, and D.C. Kopaska-Merkel, Alabama Paleontological Society Monograph No. 1. • Tetrapod Evolution - http://www.origins.tv/darwin/tetrapod2.jpg • Arthropleura - http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Arthropods/Arthropleurida/Arthropleura.jpg • Geologic Time Scale - http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/AskGeoMan/AskGeoImages/RelTimeScale.gif
References • Anatomy of a Coal Swamp - http://smtc.uwyo.edu/coal/images/anatomy_of_a_Swamp.jpg • Pennsylvanian Forest - http://www.karencarr.com/Images/Gallery/2004_gallery_pennsylvanian.jpg • Alabama Paleomap – Lacefield, Jim, Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks. • Late Carboniferous Paleomap - http://www.scotese.com/images/306.jpg