St. Clair PA: white fern fossil banks

Where: East · North America · approx. 40.72, -76.19 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: Pennsylvanian coal-swamp shale above the anthracite seams, famous worldwide for white pyrophyllite fern fronds on jet-black rock

What turns up: white fern fossils (Alethopteris, Neuropteris, Pecopteris) on black shale, seed fern fragments

Access: Permission required.

Reading Anthracite Company land: advance written permission, waivers and insurance required, organized school and club groups only, walk-in collecting is trespass

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.