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9-15-20 and 9-16-20 Ordovician Collecting in Northern Kentucky and Southern Indiana


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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.

 

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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.

 

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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?

 

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Here are some burrow traces, they are all over the place.

 

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Here is another trace fossil, I forget the name of these.

 

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I did pick up a couple pieces that had long crinoid stems.

 

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Bryozoan are found here as well as pieces of Straight shelled nautiloids.

 

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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.

 

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Lastly, I picked up one Ambonychia pelecypod.

 

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After this site I drove about 5 minutes down AA Highway to a road cut in Cold Spring, Kentucky.

 

Here are a couple pics of the site.

 

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This site has a lot of bryozoan, and some hash plates are very nice, like the one below.

 

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I found a number of trilo-bits and trilobites at this location, I believe that they are all Flexicalymene, if I am incorrect, please let me know. I do see a portion of Cryptolithus, so I do find them at other places :)

 

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Here are some other pieces found at this site.

 

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After I finished collecting here, I grabbed a hotel room in Wilder so I did not have to drive the 5 hours home until the next day, plus it gave me a chance to collect at St. Leon, Indiana.

 

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WoW! 

And WOW! 

Too many good finds to remark on individually, but I do like your gravitating towards graptolites. :)

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On the 16th I woke up and headed over to St. Leon to collect in the Butter Shale for a couple of hours before I did the drive home.

 

Here are some pics from St. Leon as well as some of my finds. 

 

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I love Zygospira brachiopods and they always show me the way to the trilobites.

 

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Sometimes they even look like Flexicalymene as seen below, with the piece of matrix on top of it, and they next pic shows a comparison.

 

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Here are some trilobites that I found this day.

 

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I also picked up a few Paupospira gastropods.

 

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I do like the individual disks of the crinoid Cincinnaticrinus they are very pretty.

 

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Below are some pictures of my finds after I got home and cleaned them up a bit. I was surprised to find a piece with a couple Tentaculites and a Acidaspis trilo-bit from my first stop in Wilder, another reason for me to love that site, plus this was a first for me in the Ordovician.

 

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Here are other cleaner pics-

 

If these are not all Flexi, please let me know.

 

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Great finds and pics. I visited St Leon and the site in Cold Spring on my last trip which I just arrived home from. Seeing your pics, reminded me of what a great time I had there. My report will be forthcoming. 

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1 hour ago, Jeffrey P said:

Great finds and pics. I visited St Leon and the site in Cold Spring on my last trip which I just arrived home from. Seeing your pics, reminded me of what a great time I had there. My report will be forthcoming. 

Can’t wait Jeff.

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1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Very much.

As always super photos and marvelous finds. :)

Thanks Adam, glad you enjoyed it.

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Very intersting to see the pictures, a lot to learn for me by comparing with the fossils I have found in Norway in Ordovicium. The crinoid stalks is very intesting. Do you think it is one or several species of graptolites in your stones? Most is straigt, I'm not sure of the name of the species, but it could be Glyptograptus teretiusculus  which is common in late Ordovicium. The last picture seems also to have one which is bended.

Thanks for showing us!

Martin 

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1 hour ago, PaleoOrdo said:

Do you think it is one or several species of graptolites in your stones?

I am not positive Martin, I will have to check on that.

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I love the little rollers. Thanks for the report. Great, as always!!!

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Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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