willtexas07 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willtexas07 Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 Part II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JohnBrewer Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) Nice hash plates, love the first one especially. The first one is covered with crinoids seen from the ends. They're the round things, some of which have the star shape inside. The branch looking things are bryozoans http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/outreach/geology-resources/bryozoans and you've got some brachiopods there. Nice haul. Edited June 22, 2016 by JohnBrewer 1 John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 "hash plate"... learned a new term today, thanks! Back home we call it "calabash" at the NC beaches. ;-) 1 Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 "hash plate"... learned a new term today, thanks! Back home we call it "calabash" at the NC beaches. ;-) Or mass mortality plate 2 John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prem Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I see lots of dead things:- lots of crinoid segments - lots of brachiopods of various genera/species - lots of bryozoans - lots of trilobite bits of Flexicalymene and Isotelus (including what looks like an Isotelus pygidium)- lots of Cryptolithus trilobite 'lace collars'---Prem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prem Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I bet if you examined under a microscope, you would find pieces of Acidaspis trilobites as well - free cheeks and pygidia. ---Prem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 The most common brachiopod in that area is Platystrophia, so I am sure some of them are those. The more flat shaped ones could be Rafinesquina. 2 Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prem Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 By the way, the Dry Dredgers website is a very good place to identify lots of Cincinnatian fossils: http://drydredgers.org/ ---Prem 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willtexas07 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 This thread is exactly why I believe this website represents the positive side of the internet. I grab a bunch of interesting rocks and people from all over the world share their insight and resources, openning my eyes to a fantastic planet from 450 million years ago. Many thank to all who replied and all who viewed this post! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prem Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 oops...forgot to mention the very last two pix are rugose coral cross-sections. ---Prem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 oops...forgot to mention the very last two pix are rugose coral cross-sections. ---Prem Actually they are bryozoa. Great example of how scale can fool you. the specimens are smaller than you think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prem Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Actually they are bryozoa. Great example of how scale can fool you. the specimens are smaller than you think. Ah, I see now. ---Prem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 congratulations...beautiful pieces, for me hashplates are wonderful little worlds contained in an easily transported piece of rock...though the last time I collected some near Green Bay, Wis. I felt more like a miner, carrying at least 80 # in my backpack as I made it back through the stream to my car...It is great to look at them with a magnifier...the complexity is astounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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