Greererpeton burkemorani Fossil

This cast of a fossil was displayed on August 2022, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. An extinct tetrapod fossil is called Greererpeton burkemorani (Romer, 1969). The cast made of the specimen that was found at Greer Quarry, Decker's Creek Monongalia County West Virginia USA. It dates to the Mississippian Period. Genus first described by Alfred S. Romer in 1969. The species appears to be named after a Cleveland Museum of Natural History paleontologists John J. Burke and William E. Moran who uncovered fossils like this at Greer Quarry (the type locality).

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:VP:VPRA-4348 its record shows collector as CMNH which I suppose means Cleveland Museum of Natural History. So this might be a cast of one of their fossils. Visiting their web site, I found a 3D model of a different specimen CMNH 11093 from the same West Virginia locality.

 

CMNH 11093, Greererpeton skull by Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Sketchfab

COAL - Show Premieres Tonight

Tonight (March 30, 2011) at 10 PM EST, a show premieres on Spike TV called Coal.  It will show the internal workings of the Cobalt Coal Company, its 600 feet deep mine, and the miners who extract coal there.  The mine is located at Westchester Mountain in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA.  The mine obtains its coal from the Sewell Seam.  Coal obtained at the mine is used in the steel making industry with the "metallurgical" grade being used for coke production.

Watching the preview, one gets to see a lot of the internals of the mine and some nice computer graphic sequences showing the mine operations. 

Coal First Look – The First 14 Minutes Of The Series Premiere
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A lot of preview videos are available on the Spike TV web site CLICK LINK HERE

Learn more at the Cobalt Coal web site CLICK LINK HERE

Visitors to Louisville, Kentucky can check out an informative coal display at the Louisville Science Center.

West Virginia Brachiopods

These pictures of brachiopod fossils are from the West Virginia-Virginia border off I-64 exit 183? (Monroe County, WV). They were sent to me by a reader named David who was wondering about their identification. He writes they are similar to fossils he find in the Ordovician formations of Craig County, Virginia. If any one knows of what they might be, please post a comment.

The 2nd and 3rd images remind me of muscle scars on the inside of a brachiopod shell.  The fourth imprint looks like a Hebertella.