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Union Chapel Mine

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

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  1. Union Chapel Mine Evidence of Change Through Time

  2. 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)

  3. Cyclothem

  4. Vertebrate Trackway

  5. Tetrapod Evolution

  6. Myriapod Trace Diplichnites gouldi – closeup of UCM – 393.

  7. Arthropleura

  8. More Invertebrate Traces Kouphichnium aspodon (right) – the locomotion trace of a Xiphosuran. Arborichnus repetitus (left) – a Xiphosuran resting trace.

  9. Undichna – A Fishy Trace Undichna, a fish swimming trace.

  10. A Paleozoic Fish

  11. Tales Told by the Evidence of Union Chapel Mine • Time Frame • Coal Swamp • Alabama During the Pennsylvanian • Pennsylvanian Global Map • Plate Tectonics

  12. Geologic Time Scale

  13. The Pennsylvanian Period

  14. Anatomy of a Coal Swamp

  15. Pennsylvanian Forest

  16. Alabama During the Pennsylvanian

  17. The Pennsylvanian World

  18. 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

  19. 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

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