museumday September 26, 2009

The Smithsonian magazine museumday is Saturday, September 26, 2009. Find out more at this website. "Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide."

Museums around me that are participating:

Carnegie Center for Art and History
201 East Spring Street
New Albany, Indiana 47150

Frazier International History Museum
900 West Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

Howard Steamboat Museum & Mansion
1101 E. Market Street
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47131

Historic Locust Grove
561 Blankenbaker Lane
Louisville, Kentucky 40207

Museums can be great places to find fossils as well. My favorite in this area is the Louisville Science Center. They will be hosting the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition from October 3, 2009 till February 15, 2010.

Calamites Living Desendants

This plant is known as Equisetum or common names Horsetail reed or pewterwart. It is known as a living fossil. The plant is a descendant of Calamites.

This post on Neocalamites fossil plants at Malaysian Triassic Blog inspired me to create today's entry. I had been meaning to post these recently taken pictures.

These first three pictures were taken recently in Washington state.

These last four were taken in Paris, France near the Jardin Des Plantes.

Carboniferous Fossils

The following are images of Lower Carboniferous Period (Mississippian) fossils. This first one is a elliptical crinoid columnal segment from maybe a Platycrinites.

This next image of a crinoid calyx that is probably an Eretmocrinus.

This next image is of an anal tube of an Eretmocrinus crinoid.
This might be a holdfast of an unidentified crinoid.


Unknown brachiopod shell half fossil.


A view of Lake Cumberland, Kentucky where these fossils were found in the Fort Payne Formation.