Aulopora conferta Coral Fossil

 

This fossil is really nice with Aulopora conferta? (Winchell) coral growing on what might be Hexagonaria.(Gürich, 1896). It was found in the Bell Shale of the Traverse Group at Carmeuse Quarry, Rogers City, Michigan, USA. The fossil dates to the middle Devonian Period (Givetian Stage).

Phareodus testis Fish Fossil

My trip earlier this month to Alpena, Michigan USA with several amateur paleontologists from Louisville and Chicago, we visited a local paleontologist Paleo Joe (aka  Joseph Kchodl). This picture is of one of his fish fossils from Kemmerer, Wyoming USA. This fossil is known as Phareodus testis (Cope, 1877). It was found in the Green River Formation and existed in the Eocene Epoch Paleogene Period.

Desmograptus micronematodes Graptolite Fossil

My trip earlier this month to Alpena, Michigan USA with several amateur paleontologists from Louisville and Chicago, we visited a local paleontologist Paleo Joe (aka  Joseph Kchodl). This picture is of one of his graptolite fossils from Middleport, New York USA. This fossil is known as Desmograptus micronematodes (Spencer, 1884). It was found in the Rochester Shale and existed in the Silurian Period.

 

Species was named by Joseph Winthorp Spencer (1851-1921) in Graptolites of the upper Silurian System (Niagara fossils). Bulletin of the University of Missouri Museum, 1, pages 555–610 published 1884.

Dr. Spencer is buried at Grove Cemetery in Dundas, Ontario, Canada.