Cephalopod Nautiloid at Louisville Science Center

Here is a fossil that can be found at the Louisville Science Center on the 2nd floor, western corner of the building, next to the windows looking out of the Ohio River.

The label said it was from the Devonian period and its identification was cephalopod nautiloid.

It does not look like anything I have found here in Louisville, Kentucky.

Mucrospirifer mucronatus Brachiopod

After volunteering at the Louisville Science Center, I decided to post some pictures of some of their fossils. It is great that they have already been identified for me down to the species.

The small fossil case is located on second floor in the western corner of the building next to the windows looking out over the river. It sort of gets you in the frame of mind for seeing these ancient creatures while seeing the Ohio River flow by.

The brachiopod was labeled Mucrospirifer mucronatus from the Devonian period.

Fossil Rock

I was cycling yesterday and came upon a pile of rocks from construction in a nearby subdivision. Some rocks contained crinoid pieces and this one has some crinoid stem pieces, part of a brachiopod, and in the middle it looks like a small star shape but I don't think starfish fossilize.

Not sure about the time period on this rock. It looks like it was dug up for a basement on a lot so the rock was maybe 10-15 feet down. In a near by area, I found a Silurian trilobite but this rock does not look the same.