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High school students ask commissioners to back proposal making Hynerpeton Pennsylvania's state fossil
Summary
Students from Bucktail High School presented Feb. 10 to Clinton County commissioners seeking local support to petition state legislators to designate Hynerpeton bassetti — a Devonian tetrapod discovered at Red Hill — as Pennsylvania's state fossil; Red Hill Field Station curator invited commissioners to visit the lab and see specimens.
Students from Bucktail High School's student government and ecology class presented to the Clinton County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 10 seeking county support for legislation to change Pennsylvania's state fossil to Hynerpeton bassetti, a Devonian-era tetrapod discovered at Red Hill.
"We are here to get legislation started to change our state fossil," said McKenna Bismond, an 11th-grade student and member of the school's student government and ecology class. Students said the current state fossil, the trilobite, is widespread across many states and that Hynerpeton…
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