Flexicalymene meeki

This trilobite was found near Mt. Washington, Kentucky (a little ways east of Louisville) on the Bardstown Road cut.

I spent time trying to figure out whether this was Calymene or Flexicalymene because the eyes are partially obstructed by matrix. The nose seems small and the head (cephalon) triangular. It was found in Ordovician rock so with the previous two features rules out a Phacops trilobite. I counted 13 segments in the thorax which puts in the correct range of 11-13. The tail or pygidium is slightly broke off and at an angle from the rest of the body.

Eventually, this specimen will be sand blasted to see if more detail of the head can be revealed.

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Halysites

Here is a coral called Halycites that existed in the Silurian period. My cousin gave me this piece and I think it came from somewhere in Charlestown, Indiana. After I cleaned it up it turned somewhat white but still retains some reddish-orange look from being in clay soil.

I used the microscope to magnify a piece that fell off while cleaning that was piece of one of the walls.

Magnification is at 100 times which is a little much for a fossil. It would be nice if I had a 10x to 20x magnifier.

Phacops rana

Here is a trilobite head of the Phacops rana found in the Jeffersonville Limestone layer which can be found in Speed, Sellersburg, and Jeffersonville Indiana that I know of.

This is just a molt where the creature grew bigger and discarded its old shell which got buried and fossilized over time.