xt79s46h348c https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt79s46h348c/data/mets.xml Alabama Alabama Museum of Natural History 1930 Other titles include: Alabama Museum of Natural History museum paper, Geological Survey of Alabama, Museum of the Geological Survey of Alabama. Other creators include: United States. Work Projects Administration, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tennessee Valley Authority. Issues for 1, 3 carry no series numbering. No. 2 also as Education papers no. 1. UK holds archival copy for ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program libraries. Call number  AS36 .A2. journals  English University, Ala. : Alabama Museum of Natural History, 1910-1960 This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed in accordance with U. S. copyright laws. Alabama Works Progress Administration Publications Museum Paper, no. 9, 1930 - including "Footprints from the Coal Measures of Alabama" by T.H. Aldrich, Sr. and Walter B. Jones text Museum Paper, no. 9, 1930 - including "Footprints from the Coal Measures of Alabama" by T.H. Aldrich, Sr. and Walter B. Jones 1930 1930 2015 true xt79s46h348c section xt79s46h348c ,§
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. worizrv/ioaz. li or several years there have been reports ot curious   · .. 2  
;;·;» ’n the shale above the Jagger coal in the Number ll Kline of the   T °  
il. xy Coal Company. near Carbon llill. \\'alker County. These things ,,  ‘ '   ’    
Am ; ity rst noticed several years ago by workmen. who called them to the T  1   g
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l l"   t" `ingineer. The original discovery tracks have been very appropri—  ·- M  
li  Q an ined ClIi}l(`O.S`tIll}'lt5 C0/»l>z` Aldrich. (see Plates fi and T). and were i , ’  
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t ' V _\ or so ago, Macfntosh s soke to Arthur Blair, Geologist of the Ten- A ` ; z
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ly, ; air .`··al_ fron & Railroad Company of Birmingham. about the tracks lj  _  l
Jl T ar   like any good geologist, was rather skeptical. Early in Decem— » · `jl
 ._ ie ist year, Blair and f. \\f. Miller. of the Land Department of the   '  
`?·i Q l `·.. ·e Company, visited Number ll and went to see the new find.   _ A i  
.,,]  ` `fl ‘e somewhat startled to behold the trail of the animal leading for l ' V A §
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Yr i T popped down a sample of rock carrying about a dozen of the Y i I `i  
3;; I isi » tl took the slab to his Birmingham office. ft was the author`s · , 5 ~  
__  i to nine to be in his office when he brought in the find and it was _ T i. -  
""   ~i¤·~:~ fiat they were entirely new to Alabama geology. David Defar- . i ·~·.  
3;;  ‘ writ —istant Curator of the Museum, visited the mine soon after that. { ' . yi * QQ
W  ° in ~ A specimens for our collection and for study. Delarnette obtained l _ N [ 4 §Q
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T =   ·ndid material. both ot the discovery tracks and additional var1e—   =.
3:%  ? it s V author made a trip to the mine on December 12, 1929, and was A { ` _ TQ
A  *. *1l~l txt still other new varieties. The diversity of the fauna was most · A " _.   · i
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t >l- *1. Several other trips have been made by members ot the staff. · ,_    
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M  _   ~ me. buperintendent of kumber ll Mme, and Charles Nclxen-   l ._  
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¤?¤’·£i  Q `{ve evidently the sediments which compose this group were laid Q I .g
`¥ll"  ii tlow., li a constantly shifting shore—line, ranging from swamp deposits · I  
·  _} oi Y water amd a luxurious vegetation to shallow seas with their sprink— i ‘  
 7 lil; ~narine invertebrates. That these conditions carried also a rather § `, ‘ y · .  
‘ nc. ~·l»rate fauna is no surprise when one considers the ideal surround- ; _l i'    
V  rites inst such animals as these. 'l he sandy beaches amd mud tlats   ‘ [ ;
 1 betv t the sea and the swamps must have been at splendid place for these t     \  
unit. to play amd rest. _ j ‘ .  
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 g Milli ·· have been a iew scattering occurrences ot marine invertebrate _ r. ~§ 3
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levi l his discovery of vertebrate tracks is the first in .·\labama, and the j L ¤
V  amzr which made them may safely be listed as among the oldest known. ‘ { , i·
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 _ >·»lt~ the tiacks quite evidently belong to reptiles. although there prob— ~· 2 5
_ I .V   . . . . ‘ · »
 ¤ sb; no great dttlerence between reptiles amd amphibians at that time. l y A [ ·  
 i tracks are found in the slate some 30 to —l‘2 inches above the top   _ ._  
i   _ . . . . l iV 1
‘ "l s- ger coal_ and are limited to slopes and entries wltlcll h2t\’C l?CC11 Q ` `{ §
 l `llI"·‘~ 1 the roof for additional clearance, or in caved roof. ln manv P ' · l  
»i · t a { {
  LM" `filcks can be followed trom the slate on one side over at distance [ 3 Q
  "l ll   Tian lll feet. into the slate of the opposite side. Usually. they I I I I   i
.~   ¢ . - _ - » - - , _ . ·' t ‘
I Wl * rl lot only a tew feet. _l`hey have been tound in several parts ‘ A _ I Q
”‘ ill`   but the fourth left entry off the southwest slope has been the   I { l
_, **1 ` for collecting, _ t I '  
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  · »· · i·,· time these beds were deposited, the dominant land animals _ l ll · ;
· ; MVC ¥»· · 1Yllll€lllS_ which were usually f0ur—f0Ot€(l, Cll1lNS}' tl1i11§S. T1“E1Cll,<.><31C.»\L SL'R\'l-ZY OF .»\I,ABAMA  
t gt — In H W I VI iwfrw `I r "?WI?*"*r '''' rr 7" 3 .
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a ll of amphibians have been found in rocks much older than the Jagger ut Q tg
  but reptile footprints in older rocks are very rare. The Carbon leli   I (I
€%lj eovety is replete with interest and is one of the most important i, jug  
  I years. ~ All
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fh? I he earltest known tracks seem to have been found in Lanail lu W
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,   t in the Ivnited States Dr. .·\. 'l`. King descrtbed some in 1545 in \'ol_ .,§ , `
    the .»\nierican lournal of Science, p. ‘2l¤i. Ifrom the figures give is I IV
. "|g__ 'I ` I · l . " ` pbh
i ity prob;tl»le that these tracks were amphibtan. In the nnpresstons he att-4
j ["_jQ_ that the forefoot only had four toes and the hind foot had five. one U Y
'ZJ wears .¤reviouslv Prof. C. II. Hitchcock described tracks that ere  
5 W ‘ mssiltlv bird tracks m the 'I`r1assic. but so far as we can find, Dr. il`.
·   IH ‘ .. . . s . ' I
Q HI lung was the ftrst to describe tracks in the Larboniferous. In IN l` aaa { ‘
I .·; . . . . p. . . a _ 1
f ,§{j·2, l.ea ot Phtlatlelplna dtscovered some tootprtnts tn the Coal Kfeae » ol
· .*.` . . . . ,, _ .
2 hlgl _ l‘ennsylvaina. His account was probably published tn the lransaca ~» of
;   ` the I\tnerican Philosophical Societv. In 1875 Prof.   D. Cope dt 'lietl 1
. *15;* . N ‘. . . _ ». , I J. .
‘ "*+$l - a skull from the Coal Measures from Istnton, Ohto. thee Ceo. 11rv. »
l  »·I· . . .. . · ,
g Q y Ulno. \ ol. ‘2, Part ‘?, p. QUT, plate ill. fig. 2.)  
» · . . . . . ,. s , . II
l all lhe next writer tn the proceedings ot the U. b. battonal XI Ltin. ij I
§   \`t·l. IW. described some specimens from the Kansas Coal Measure Ibis li"
' ll ‘ Il _ 7 . . . .
[   writer. I{. I., Hoodie. subsequently reviewed the subject very t ally
.` WW and apparently brought it down to llllti. His excellent work I Ilttl
' .§·   ,.., , { I _ · . . . . . . V. _
I pill. I ltr L ttul rllett.tttre.r .'flll]"fllf’lt! ot .\ortlt qlttiertrti, published by t. cat-  
g   negic Institute of \\'ashington. Iillli. Prof. O, C. Marsh. of Y. has I
;   also written quite a, few papers upon the same subject. The ;r ~ ef .
i me these ancient animals have been of verv little benefit to the au listi
. 'Ixl and mor tholoutsts of the L ntted btates. However. the work of Dr. II`··l1t‘
~ lt. I: . . I · . . . . .. ,
. 'llf. · ts more encvclo tethc than anv other writer. Un were Qtll in }Io·i»·tI. —Ir·~1‘l< _
_ fp.,} . I , I > W
r ‘i_>gE wtll be tounil a list of the footorints known and the names attaclle ‘Ci¤*· Illl"
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tal  i· ti givin 5l’lQCIE$ .·\ L‘TH01R Hoktzox l.0c,vt,t’1‘y il . . . .
`lS—     ‘;'_#rai·a/ifv Marsh Coal Measures Osage County, ~ · 1  
fm   Y __ v_ Kansas V   I x .  
  { y4\- K pa/m·z·r.<¤¤»is1 king Du Pennsylvania ; · ;·
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NH . _; $315 rift:iztgnwuiisis Leidy Do Do Q ·»    
" _     ,‘,~;;m_¢ Marsh Do Osage County, 1 ‘  {  
in  ' Kansas . i T ` t VE
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’ Ul  I t;`jt`(la.v· Dawson D0 D0 ’ ' ‘ i
had it, inclcl. UU DO _ i l
` 2 {_ · qugzzrx Marsh D0 Osage County, l l g·
fill'- __ Kansas '_ . l lr
  ft. waiia/zi.t Marsh D0 D0 · . V l
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TIN. t   lz izzrzwztt Butts Do D0 g T ` °l ;‘
`lii; .   ‘ {tits aatirgisittr Dawson iuhcarboniterous Nova Scotia ;` t _ . 1
_    V p:·i¤:zt1t·r·sz.v ljea Coal Measures Pennsylvania ‘ · ,  
il¤l)'  ; .»·ym!w:isi.v Dawson D0 U Qape Breton Island ` ‘ g
fittl  ¤ ¤f1fUfl€f¤`*' DHWSOI1 Carl>0n1tcr0us Bova Scotia  
._ _   lhl1llSIOllC grit) ` `. _ _ ;
Wk _ Ti:   lt·,l`tmlt:rr_i·!a; King Coal Measures Pennsylvania  
has   ~r‘<·f