Lewis and Clark Park

View of the Ohio River from Lewis and Clark Park in Clarksville, Indiana.  The park is next to the Falls of the Ohio State Park with its large fossil beds.

Stigmaria Fossil

Stigmaria ficoides? plant fossil found in Hazard, Kentucky. Fossil root of some sort of lycopsid tree. The plant grew in the Middle? Pennsylvanian Period in the Breathitt Group.

This fossil is interesting in that it can be split apart and inner root details can be seen.

Surface pattern up close view.  Thanks to Herb for letting me photograph his fossil.

Wilkingia terminale Pelecypod

Wilkingia terminale pelecypod fossil found in Hazard, Kentucky.  This marine fossil was found in the Breathitt Group of the Pennsylvanian Period.

Thanks to Herb for letting me photograph the fossil.