Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Unknown Kope Formation Fossils

Is this some sort of tooth or a spine?  While investing the trace fossil I presented in the post a few days ago with the microscope, I noticed this brown-amber colored object.  My cousin suggested it might be part of a conodont. Rock plate was found in Carroll County, Kentucky in the Kope Formation of the Ordovician Period.  All images on this page are at 40x magnification with a microscope.


This last fossil might be some sort of coral.  I magnified thinking it might be a bryozoan that are common in the area but the pores look too big.

Posted by Michael Popp at 5:22 AM
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that the first photois a conodont. It looks similar to the cone type of part associated with Gamachignathus sp., and is of the appropriate color and size.

April 7, 2010 at 4:20 PM
Michael Popp said...

Thanks for the comment.

The first two pictures are of the same fossil, the first illuminated with incandescent lighting and the second with a white LED.

April 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM

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