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I was on vacation this week and had to do a little remodel in our half bathroom, but I did make enough time to make a 5 hour trip to Kentucky and Indiana for some road cut collecting. My first stop was in Wilder, Kentucky, I love this first stop because I always find some story book hash plates. I have to admit that hash plates that have a lot of things going on are some of my favorite fossils to find. A lot of the pieces shown in this post ended up in the buckets of fossils that I brought to the ESCONI Braceville Shaft Mine trip on Saturday. Here are a couple pics of this location. One thing that I have to say about this location is that I do not find a lot of loose fossils here. I do not know if it is just me or that I am just gravitate to the hash plates that I find here. This is the only location that I find Graptolites, here are some pics. I picked up this piece because it reminded me of a Cruziana, I have some in my collection, but I have never actually found one. What do you think? Here are some burrow traces, they are all over the place. Here is another trace fossil, I forget the name of these. I did pick up a couple pieces that had long crinoid stems. Bryozoan are found here as well as pieces of Straight shelled nautiloids. Another thing that is special about this site is are the Cryptolithus trilo-bits that I find. I find these trilobites very pretty and love the lace collar and I don't recall if I ever found them at other locations. Here are some hash plates with them as well as Flexicalymene trilo-bits and other things. CONTINUED ON NEXT POST