browninge Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Currently located in Fleming co. Kentucky. This area is known for its large limestone deposits and is very fossil-rich. I found this piece while walking along a small creek. I have been searching this creek for roughly 4 months and have found large quantities of Horn, stem/branch and brain coral with scattered amounts of cephalopods. This is the first time I have come across a piece like this in this creek and needed help identifying it as my other resources have turned up empty. The whole rock is 10cm/4 but the fossil is 5cm /2.25 inches. Any thoughts, comments, and ideas would be much appreciated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Stratigraphy? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Peat Burns Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 It looks like pieces of fish material to me. EDIT: Nope - I agree with erose. Likely Ordovician Isotelus genal spine. The blue color had me thinking fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Looks like it's Ordovician. There's a trilobite glabella (Flexicalymene?) under it on the right. I think this is a large Isotelus genal spine. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 25 minutes ago, erose said: Looks like it's Ordovician. There's a trilobite glabella (Flexicalymene?) under it on the right. I think this is a large Isotelus genal spine. Hello and welcome @browninge from Hardin County Kentucky! I think @erose has it right. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Peat Burns said: It looks like pieces of fish material to me. EDIT: Nope - I agree with erose. Likely Ordovician Isotelus genal spine. The blue color had me thinking fish. Yeah, if it's from the Cincinnatian Series, no fish.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 11 minutes ago, erose said: Yeah, if it's from the Cincinnatian Series, no fish.... Yep. Good eye on the Flexi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Isotelus cheek spine and pieces of pleural sections and possibly pygidium pieces. Bryozoa pieces and most of a Flexicalymene cephalon. 2 "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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