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I found this fossil a few weeks ago. It was in a creek bed that flows during the wet season but has pools in the dry. I know the creek has sandstone, but it also looks like it has limestone and possibly slate. There is also a lot of rocks containing rust. This fossil appears to be stained with it. I am located in Western Kentucky near Hopkinsville. One side looks like it is ribs. The other side is smooth and one part is unusually round. There are pockets that appear to be filled with sediment that has solidified into rock. I've added pictures from all sides and others with measurements. I will add them as replies since the files are too large. I wish I had more, but this is all I have.
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Can anyone help me identify all these fossilized teeth and other fossils I have?
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Hey! I was looking for native artifacts in a neighbourhood creek when I came across what I thought was a somewhat large cephalopod fossil. The creek is in Louisville Kentucky, leading to Floyd’s Fork. From the USGS Mapview, it looks like it’s Ordovician of the Drake’s formation. Either Bardstown member or Saluda Dolomite member. Upon further examination, I saw that the ridges on the sides were angled very steeply. It was very covered by matrix, so I decided to get to work on it with a dremel tool. After getting a significant amount of material off the fossil, I found that the ridges along the side were not in fact bilaterally symmetrical, and rather that these ridges went down the length of it, spiraling like they would on a screw. It is hollow, partially filled in with some softer, red stone and crystallized on the inside. From what I can tell, it has a curve to it reminding me of cyrtoconic(?) cephalopods. I read somewhere that cephalopods are bilaterally symmetrical, so I decided to post this here since I now don’t have any better guesses on what it is. My only other thoughts are that shark coprolites can be spiral shaped, and that it seems too smooth and hollowed to be a horn coral. My heads buzzing about this. Mum said it could be a unicorn horn . Due to upload limits, I will be adding a couple more photos below. I could not find any other fragments of the fossil besides this one section.
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A Devonian coral site in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Hello all, I'm a relatively new fossil collector from Northern Kentucky, where Ordovician and Silurian fossils abound. I am also not all that far from Big Bone Lick State Park, so of course I am interested in the megafauna that used to walk this very land! My collection mainly consists of various purchases of Megalodon teeth, a Spinosaurus tooth, Triceratops rib fragment, and a Mosasaur jaw (I suspect Prognathodon?), as well as other little pieces. I have frequented this forum a lot, mainly in the identification of real Mosasaurus jaws. I have learned a lot from looking here, so I had to become a member! I am ready to learn even more and perhaps even gain insight into my pieces. I'm even considering purchasing a piece tomorrow consisting of a large set of jaws. While I do not suspect them of being a composite, I would love to try to acquire pictures of them and see what the community thinks (they're located in a shop in Tennessee where I've seen them in person before, but unfortunately did not think to take pictures) before I make a purchase. I'm very excited to be a part of this community and hope I get to learn and see a lot from you all! Merry Christmas!
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Hi, I'm visiting my niece who just had a baby, in campbellsville KY. I noticed there are a lot of very ancient fossils in Kentucky. Does anyone have any sites or road cuts to explore? Thanks alot, this is my first post. Stuart
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Found this in a stream in Bowling Green, Kentucky along with plenty of plant fossils that were in clay like rocks
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Hello, I am brand new to the forum - I hunt for fossils often, but I am completely stumped here! I found this a few years ago in Slade, KY - inside of the Red River Gorge - in the Red River. I think it looks like a giant centipede, with some sort of antennae at the top, but one experienced fossil friend thinks it might be a cycad cross section. I see legs, a critter.. but he sees a plant. Hopefully one of you experts here can solve this mystery!
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Hello all from the eastern part of Kentucky. I was always a dinosaur kid growing up, but never really got into fossil hunting after I learned that my home state of Kentucky was mostly an inland sea and we lacked any “terrible lizards”, which caused me to overlook the bounty of fossils we do have. Now that I’m a lot older, and a little wiser, trying to correct that and learn as much as I can, and hopefully start my own fossil collection!
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Today I have some more playground finds. I think these fossils are agatized? They are very shiny and have a striated, yet bumpy texture. The only thing I can think is that they're some kind of inside cast of horn coral, but they almost seem to have had branches due to the knot-hole appearance on two of them. Two of them have hollowed-out ends.
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Hello again, Fossil Forum. I have some actual fossils for you now. My seven-year-old daughter finds these tiny things mixed in with the gravel on her school playground. I don't know if the gravel is local to us in Kentucky, but it might be. The first one has so much contrast it looks like someone painted the white parts of it! I assume it's some kind of coral, but I don't know what kind. The second item is one of the best she's found as it seems to be in very good shape. I don't know if it's plant matter or again, coral. I'd love to be able to label it in her little fossil box.
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I found what looks like a tree cast fossil in black shale layer but it does not look like what I have seen on display. It to me made of a very fine grain sediment and peel off in layers. I could see a complete log imbedded in the shale on one of the upper layers appears to be less than a foot in diameter.
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I'm pleased to be here, thank you to the keepers of this site. Gracias. Hello everbuddy.
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Hi everyone. So I've an old HS fb friend who found this doing tractor mowing in an area called Sand Knob. Ky is littered with these knobs, similar to a mountain range. My question is, could this possibly be an 85 million yr old fossil from the Cretaceous Period? (The last time oceans were in Western ky) It appears to be a whale vertebrae to me and others but they insist it was "dropped" or "planted". This 100% was not randomly buried by a trickster in a remote area of Casey Co. This sandy Knob region could be the banks of the Mississippian range. They are actually. Similar to how beached whales wash up on the beach, this creature, with a rise in sea levels, could very well have been deposited here. It's approximately 200mls away to the western region that known Cretaceous fossils have been found. Could this change the map in terms of Period location? Do the sandy knobs represent the banks of a past, epic event in sea levels rising? What catastrophic event would send sea levels 200mls East? Meteor? Ice caps melting? Mosasaur was known to crawl to land to give birth could this have been the leftovers of a takeaway dinner? Lol
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Hi guys, new to fossil hunting so I thought I'd ask for some help identifying a few fossils my girlfriend and I found at a park near Louisville, Kentucky. We found a ton of brachiopods among the creek gravel, almost completely without context, but this was the only one intact and in decent condition. Is this what I think it is, a Vinlandostrophia laticosta? According to this resource we're only about 30 miles or so out of its documented range. http://www.ordovicianatlas.org/atlas/brachiopoda/rhynchonellata/orthida/platystrophiidae/vinlandostrophia/vinlandostrophia-laticosta/ Thanks!
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Couple of fossils found in the fort Knox region. Not too impressive but pretty cool none the less. Let know what you think.
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Upper Ordovician, Corryville member. Dry Dredgers field trip 4/28/18. Rt. 11, near Flemingsburg, KY. Vinlandostrophia ponderosa and "Solenopora" My shark teeth I won in the annual auction at the Dry Dredgers meeting the night before.
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I'm currently at Fort Knox Kentucky for about 6 weeks and am interested in doing some fossil hunting while I am here. Does anyone know where I can find some cool stuff? Hoping for trilobites! Any info would be awesome!
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Not sure what this is someone told me petrified wood or wood opal, I am new to fossils and rocks and gems by accident. Accident meaning tore down old mobile home found all sorts of neat stuff under it and in run down shed. I did find a meteorite waiting for official confirmation though. Thanks for any help
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From the album: icycatelf's Backyard Fossils
Cordaites with Artisia Hyden Formation Middle Pennsylvanian Eastern Kentucky 5.6cm (length) Fossil from a Cordaites tree with pith (Artisia) exposed -
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Mariopteris fern Eastern Kentucky, USA Pennsylvanian Period (~ 330 million years ago) The Medullosales is an order of pteridospermous seed plants characterised by large ovules with circular cross-section, with a vascularised nucellus, complex pollen-organs, stems and rachides with a dissected stele, and frond-like leaves. Their nearest still-living relatives are the cycads. Most medullosaleans were small to medium-sized trees. The largest were probably the trees with Alethopteris fronds - these fronds could be at least 7 metres long and the trees were perhaps up to 10 metres tall. Especially in Moscovian times, many medullosaleans were rather smaller trees with fronds only about 2 metres long, and apparently growing in dense, mutually supporting stands. During Kasimovian and Gzhelian times there were also non-arboreal forms with smaller fronds (e.g. Odontopteris) that were probably scrambling or possibly climbing plants. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Superphylum:†Tracheophyta Subphylum: †Euphyllophytina Class: unranked clade: †Radiatopses Family: Family: †Medullosaceae Genus: Genus: †Mariopteris -
From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Sphenopteris fern Sphenopteris fern Eastern Kentucky, USA Pennsylvanian Period (~ 330 million years ago) Sphenopteris is a genus of seed ferns containing the foliage of various extinct plants, ranging from the Devonian to Late Cretaceous. The frond of Sphenopteris could be up to 20 inches (51 cm) long. Kingdom: Plantae Division: †Pteridospermatophyta Class: †Lyginopteridopsida Order: †Lyginopteridales Family: †Lyginopteridaceae Genus: †Sphenopteris -
From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Alethopteris fern Eastern Kentucky, USA Pennsylvanian Period (~ 330 million years ago) Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil Pteridospermatophyta (seed ferns) that existed in the Carboniferous period (around 360 to 300 million years ago). It is in the family Alethopteridaceae. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: †Pteridospermatophyta Order: †Medullosales Family: †Alethopteridaceae Genus: †Alethopteris -
@TNCollector et al. This one seems rather non-descript. Any ideas? Helodus? Chomatodus? Psephodus? I have no idea... Location and age info in tags.
