Fusulinids

Late Pennsylvanian (Shawnee Group of the Virgilian Stage)

Top and bottom photos--Fusulinids (an extinct single-celled animal that secreted roughly wheat grain to American football-shaped shells) preserved in their matrix; genus Triticites. From the upper Pennsylvanian Kanwaka Shale, Shawnee Group, Virgilian Stage--303 to 301 million years ago.

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