Danaeites emersoni

Period: Vale formation, Clear Fork group, lower Permian

Location: Kirby Lake, Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

#1   

Size: 159 mm long block (larger of 2 pieces)

#2

Size: 82 mm wide block - 2 specimens

Description: Fern frond, in blue/gray mudstone

Close-up of #1 shows frond was fertile with "fruit dots" (spore filled sori)

Delnortea abbottii

Period: Vale formation, Clear Fork group, lower Permian

Location: Lake Abilene, Taylor Co., Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 697 mm long block

Description: Fern frond, in red siltstone

Delnortea abbottii

Period: Vale formation, Clear Fork group, lower Permian

Location: Lake Abilene, Taylor Co., Texas

Collection: Dr. R. H. Tull

#1    Size: 126 mm long block

#2    Size: 89 mm long block

2 specimens

Description: Fern frond, in red siltstone

Delnortea abbottii

Period: Vale formation, Clear Fork group, lower Permian

Location: Abilene Lake, Taylor Co., Texas

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: 84 mm long block

Description: Fern frond, in red siltstone

Glossopteris sp.

Period: Late Permian

Location: Illawarra Coal Measures, Dunedoo, NSW, Australia

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: 148 mm long block

Description: leaves -- This Genus of tree was very prolific in the southern continents but not found in the northern continents.

Trigonocarpus

Period: Penn/Perm

Location: ? Texas

Collection: ?

Research by: Larry Millar of the Bonehead Club of Abilene

Identified by: William A. DiMichele & Hallie Sims, Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution

Size: 32 mm long

Description: a six sided ovule (seed pod) from a medullosan pteridosperm ( Seed Fern ), petrified in iron.  Pecan-like, it would also have had a soft outer later.  This specimen's size is extraordinary if it is from the Permian.