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Found in Kentucky along AA Highway, Ordovician, Kope formation. I took it because it looked like a weird eyeball thing. I didn't think it was a fossil, just a weird rock, until I cleaned it off and found a bunch of trilobite bits on it. So that had me wondering if it was a trace fossil or if there might be something inside if I chipped away at the shape. Honestly I'm kinda itching to see if there is anything inside it. As it sorta, to my untrained eye, looks like something fell into the water about an eon ago and got covered up. However I don't want to take the Dremel to it if it is more or less just a trace without chance of anything being locked away in there. So I'm just trying to get the thoughts on it from other people way more knowledgeable than me about the matter. Thanks in advance.
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I found this along AA Highway. These where at every stop I made during my 4 hour hunt. Most were on rocks too heavy for me to lift. I did have a nice one that was a full specimen, but I lost it when I fell from the second teir of the roadcut (shouldn't have been climbing in the rain ha ha). So I tried to draw out what can't be seen in the only specimen I have. I looked through my fossil books and the closest thing I can find is maybe these are parts of cryptolithus. I wish I could have gotten more. This one is about 2.5cm long and I saw some that were slightly larger and slightly smaller.
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I found this mortality plate along AA Highway in Kentucky. Area is ordovician. I've been cleaning on this plate all night, when found this little guy under some dirt and brachiopod fragments. Did I just find a flexicalymene trilobite head? I know it's just a fragment and not the full thing. But I'd be pretty stoked if I'm correct on this. Thanks in advance. (I traced it out just in case my picture is too poor to see it. I can't find my macro lens)
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I picked this up on my last trip along AA highway in Kentucky. It's about 4cm long. I thought it was a crinoid stem. Recently I saw a YouTube video where someone found a fossil very similar to this and called it a cephalopod. So that left me confused. So I figured I should just post and ask here. (If I need to provide more information or pictures please let me know)
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A few weeks ago I went along AA Highway here in Kentucky and collected a number of mortality plates from the side of the road. I had cleaned up this plate and had it sitting to the side as I tried to figure out how I was going to display it. One of my cats knocked it over last night and split off a chunk that exposed this concretion looking thing that was hidden beneath the top layer of crushed brachiopod shells. Unfortunately when I picked it up to examine it, the top of this concretion looking thing fell off. It sent little fragments everywhere. When I looked back to the main part of the mortality plate I saw this shape. I'm not sure if this is anything of any importance or just an anomaly of the rock. My brain keeps telling me that it looks like bone of some sort (well impression of bone), but I know I'm not experienced enough to know. I collected the top of the concretion looking thing and what fragments I could find and took a picture of them as well. I couldn't pick up the other fragments as they just crumbled in my fingers. Also, I guess it's would be important information this concretion looking things is a little over 3 inches long and about an inch and a half wide. Did my cat just find something of importance in my mortality plate?
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Labor Day Weekend Trip to Kentucky and Indiana For A Little Ordovician Hunting
Nimravis posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I decided to leave at 5 am on Friday to head down to a roadcut that I read about that was located in Maysville, Kentucky. I knew that it was at the right off of AA Highway so I decided to grab a hotel in Wilder, Kentucky which seems to be the start of the roadcuts that are on AA Highway. After 5 hours of driving I was in Wilder and started down AA Highway knowing that I might stop at a couple roadcuts prior to hitting the big one in Maysville. Believe it or not, if you count all of the roadcuts that are on the 41 mile drive from Wilder to the turn off for Maysville you will pass, if my counting is correct 120 places to collect. Now I counted each side as a separate roadcut since sometimes I find different things on each side. This will be a picture heavy post since I stopped at Maysville twice, plus 8 other roadcuts on AA Highway and on the way home Sunday I spent about 5 hours at St. Leon, Indiana. I will be identifying the locations using the name that is associated with the pictures that I took with my I-Phone, not sure if the cities / towns are correct, but besides Maysville and St. Leon, all of the stops were on AA Highway. Stop 1 was at a roadcut in Melbourne, Kentucky. Like most of the places that collected at in Kentucky it has a heavy concentration of bryozoan, there were also trace fossils and Trilo-bits. Here are a couple pics of what can be found here. Trace Fossils- Hash plate with Flexicalymeme Trilo-bits- Bryozoans- Stop 2 was at another roadcut in Melbourne. This site I found the bivale Ambonychia. Bryozans- Hash plates with Hebertella brachiopods and Isotelus trilo-bits. Orthoconic nautiloids- Other Trilo-bits of Flexicalymene. Stop 2 Trace fossils to follow-- 53 replies
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