Although there are numerous isolated occurrences of plant fossils
throughout the extensive strip mines and outcrops in Fulton County, no
exceptionally good collecting localities have been discovered.
Fern and cordaitean leaves have been collected along Mill Creek about a
mile northeast of Pleasantview where the fossils occur in the shale
overlying the Babylon Coal. In the same general area, impressions and
casts of _Stigmaria_, _Lepidodendron_, and _Cordaites_ have been found
in the Babylon Sandstone.
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Three miles north of Pleasantview, a quarter of a mile northwest of
Union School, several species of leaves have been collected from the
Browning Sandstone where it is exposed in a roadcut.
Farther east, there is a fairly good locality in the stream bluff of
Kerton Creek about 3¼ miles north and a quarter of a mile west of Bluff
City. There the plants are found about 18 feet below a coal bed.
Numerous fern impressions also are found in shale beds above the Herrin
(No. 6) Coal along the Middle Branch of Copperas Creek, six miles west
of Glasford. Other specimens may be found in these beds elsewhere in the
area.