Annularia of Eastern Kentucky

 Pennsylvanian Period (Carboniferous for those outside the United States) plant fossils found in the Breathitt Group.  Found in Hazard, Kentucky (the coal area of eastern Kentucky created over 300 million years ago).  These fossil plants appear to be Annularia.

Note: fossils photographed while wet to increase contrast. Thanks to Kenny for the fossils.

Crawfordsville Crinoids at ISM

If Indiana is known for a particular fossil, it has got to be the crinoids of Crawfordsville.  These prepped plates are on display on the first floor of the Indiana State Museum (October 2010).  Animals existed in the Mississippian Period.

Waldron Shale Fossils Displayed at ISM

Waldron Shale fossils on display at the Indiana State Museum (ISM). First is the index fossil of the Waldron Shale, the Eucalyptocrinites crassus crinoid calyx. 

 The next crinoid cup fossil appears to be an Eucalyptocrinites elrodi.

This third image shows the fragment of the crinoid calyx with arms of Eucalyptocrinites crassus.

 The fourth image shows unidentified crinoid arm.

Last image of the holdfast of an Eucalyptocrinus crinoid.