Sunday, June 14, 2009

Isotelus Trilobite Fragment

I picked up a rock at one of the eastern Louisville Ordovician road cuts that has a number of fossils in it. I thought this small piece was brachiopod but my cousin told me this is Isotelus trilobite piece that still has some texture. It looks like fingerprint.
Here is a picture of the larger rock that has some buried gastropods that might be Loxoplocus.

Here is a part of branching bryozoan next to trilobite fragment.


This a clam or pelecypod that might be an Ambonychia. It is partially encrusted by an unidentified bryozoan.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Mediospirifer Devonian Brachiopod

Here is a brachiopod fragment from North Vernon formation in Clark County, Indiana. It might be a Mediospirifer from the Devonian period. Normally, one would not post an image of fragment but only whole brachiopods. When turned over this one reveals part of its lophophore that has been broken off. This tube series makes it pretty neat since you get a view of the fossilized inside of the lophophore.




A little dot is visible inside the coil of the lophophore.

Aulaphyllum Horn Coral

Here are some images of fossils that are probably Aulaphyllum horn corals from the Devonian period. It was found in north east Jefferson County, Kentucky.