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I found my first trilobite. It appears to be ventral and it is concave.. The roadcut is in Northern Kentucky and labeled Kope on Ky geologic map. I would like to prep it, but don't want to ruin it. Any advice is appreciated.
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The Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician) is well known for producing beautiful echinoderms. The crinoids and edrioasteroids are probably best known, but some other weird groups do appear locally. This is a slab of Cheirocystis fultonensis, a cystoid that only occurs in a maybe meter-length interval spanning the base of the type Cincinnatian (uppermost Point Pleasant Formation into the Fulton Submember of the Kope Formation). I collected these last winter in northern Kentucky and just got them back from being prepped today. These are some of my favorite echinoderms – they're just so weird! As found in the field. I took this photo while waiting for the ice to thaw so I could safely lift the slab. After prep. They turned out very well!
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While visiting my sister in Cincinnati, I dropped off some trilobites to finish prepping in Covington, Ky. With a bit of free time on my hands, I took advantage of a road cut close by exposing the Kope Formation/ Ordovician. Many of these circular structures with a depressed center existed in the matrix I examined there. They are 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter. After running through the Dry Dredgers picture atlas, I could not find anything that resembled these. Bryozoan??? If so, they are distinctive enough to hopefully assign a genus and species to. Thanks for any thoughts! Mike
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I collected these brachiopods from the lower Kope Formation (Late Ordovician) in northern Kentucky. I am leaning towards Zygospira modesta but was hoping for a second opinion. @Misha @Tidgy's Dad Thanks for any help.
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This past weekend I had to cancel a collecting trip due to ominous weather, so I instead made an impromptu trip to northern Kentucky to do some Ordovician collecting for a couple days. I really love this area and would spend a week down there if I could. This trip I decided to focus on the Kope and Fairview formations, two of the older formations in the greater Cincinnati area. The first day was mostly driving and not much collecting due to rain. But I did briefly stop at a spot where I found a pocket of Ectenocrinus crinoids on my last trip. I checked to see if any more had weathered out and found a few small calyxes. I also collected a neat trace fossil and a small brachiopod plate (Zygospira modesta maybe?).
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I was cleaning up my "fossil prep room" and found this specimen I meant to ask about months ago. It was found at the base of a Kentucky road cut that had Kope Formation. It is paper thin and actually popped off of the matrix. I then glued it back on. It seemed to look better associated with the trilobit. I am hoping to ID this as specific as possible since it is quite different from what I have found before. THANKS!!!! Mike
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First of all, is this a hypostome? If so, is it a damaged one from Isotelus? Found in the Kope Formation, Ordovician along AA Highway in Kentucky. Thanks for looking at it and giving an opinion. Mike
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Hello all, I found this nautiloid fragment in the Kope Formation out of the Cincinnatian series in Northern Kentucky. Suspecting this to either be an Endocerid due to the size or perhaps even a coiled nauitoid due to the curvature in the camerae towards the end with the siphuncle sticking out and the general shape of the specimen, unfortunately not preserving detail towards the other end. I was thinking it could be Characteroceras due to them being found in the Kope, but it seems to be too big. Seems like this guy died, sank to the bottom and preserved the side that planted in the Ordovician mud, interesting that you can still see the outline of the siphuncle on that end. Curious as to what you all think, I just don't know what to put it in as for my database. Thanks you all!
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I occasionally pick up a few bryozoan when hunting for "fossils", but they must have something about them that are intriguing. These two specimens caught my eye and were collected from a road cut in southern Indiana. There is Kope overlain by Belleview, Ordovician. After studying possible bryozoan that match, I am not sure of an ID. So let me know your thoughts. Mike First: Second:
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Found these fossils in Kenton County, Kentucky while there for a wedding. These are not like what I am used to in Texas, since they are roughly 300 million years older. Any help with fossil ID's is greatly appreciated!
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I'm trying not to overload you guys with requests, but I have been spending hours upon hours on the internet and in books trying to figure this stuff out. I just want to know that it all lines up with Ordovician and Kope or Fairview so I know what I have. I am in Northern Kentucky and we are finding this stuff in our backyard. At first, all I was saying was that I was finding coral and shells, but it seems that there are different varieties, and depending on where we look, we found different shapes and sizes. So, have a gander and let me know what you think... I have different angles of some of them in my photobucket album. http://photobucket.com/doodlebugger
