Posts treating: "Grayson County"
Friday, 30 October 2015
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-10-30 19:44:00]
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Brachiopod fossils pictured in this post might be Cliothyridina sublamellosa. They were found in the Glen Dean Formation of Grayson County, Kentucky USA. These creatures existed in the Mississippian
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-30 00:14:00]
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These pictures are what appear to be dorsal calyx cups from an Agassizocrinus fossil crinoid. The fossils were found in Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. They date to Mississippian Period.
I have been wanting to find this type of fossil for a while and finally got a chance to collect some. They are small about the size of a marble and are in a distinctive cup shape
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-29 00:01:00]
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These pictures show a crinoid stem fossil partially covered by bryozoan. What makes it interesting are the small tube like holdfasts that the bryozoans used to anchor to the crinoid stem. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period.
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Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-19 03:30:00]
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These pictures show a crinoid stem segment fossil. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It looks like a little flower or maybe an asterisk. I will probably end up using one of the stem pieces on my fossil Christmas tree at the end of the year.
Photos taken with Moto G 2nd generation phone
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-18 03:30:00]
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These pictures show a crinoid stem fossil. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period.
Photos taken with Moto G 2nd generation phone
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-11 03:00:00]
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(143 visits) Carboniferous; US
This picture shows what appears to be a Fenestella bryozoan fossil. While a common fossil to find in the Louisville area when looking a Mississippian age rock, finding one with narrow tube like holdfasts is somewhat rare. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period.
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Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-10 04:00:00]
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(199 visits) Carboniferous; US
This picture shows an unidentified horn coral fossil. The small bumps on across the fossil might be the remains of some type of holdfast the creature used to anchor itself to the seabed. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It is small about 1.7 cm tall.
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Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-09 04:00:00]
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These pictures appear to show a Zeacrinites wortheni crinoid calyx fossil. What is nice about this fossil is that most of its arms are intact. One side has the remains of Fenestella bryozoan. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It is small about 3 cm tall.
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Louisville Area Fossils [2015-08-07 09:24:00]
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(182 visits) Carboniferous; US
These pictures appear to show a Zeacrinites wortheni crinoid calyx fossil. If you look close at the top of the calyx image is a small point that appears to be part of the anal tube. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It is small about 1.5 cm tall.
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The jet stream patterns that have set up the currentwet situation in Texas. From Weather.com hereon May 24.Over 350 homes in Hays County, Texas, are gone, and more than 1000 are damaged according to reports coming out this Memorial Day weekend. At least one person in Texas and two in Oklahoma have died as a result of the storms. The Blanco River surged up 28' in 2 hours as the flood surged to 40', three times the flood level. And as of this (Sunday) evening, more rains are expected, [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [2014-09-19 03:30:00]
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(133 visits) Carboniferous; US
These fossils appears to be a Fenestella. It was found in
the Glen Dean formation.of Grayson County,
Kentucky USA. There is an interesting set of spines in the middle of the image. The fossils date to the Mississippian Period. Image was
taken with a microscope with an approximate 4 mm field of view (FOV).
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Louisville Area Fossils [2014-09-18 03:30:00]
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(116 visits) Carboniferous; US
The white fossil appears to be a Cornulites worm tube fossil next to an unidentified brown trilobite genial spine. It was found in the Glen Dean formation.of Grayson County,
Kentucky USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. Image was taken with a microscope with an approximate 4 mm field of view (FOV).
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Louisville Area Fossils [2014-09-17 03:30:00]
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(147 visits) Carboniferous; US
The fossil the blue arrow is pointing to appears to be a Palaeoconchus (aka Spirobus) worm fossil. It was found in the Glen Dean formation.of Grayson County,
Kentucky USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. The worm fossils is intermixed with bryozoans (maybe Fenestella). Image was taken with a microscope with an approximate 4 mm field of view (FOV).
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Louisville Area Fossils [2014-08-25 12:00:00]
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(95 visits) Carboniferous; US
Over the weekend my cousin went fossil hunting in Grayson County, Kentucky USA for Mississippian Period fossils. He got extremely lucky and found a nice crinoid calyx. It appears to be a Bicidiocrinus wetherbyi (Wachsmuth and Springer, 1886). It was found in the Glen Dean formation.
A retired professor at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Don Chesnut has a number of posted images on
Pentremites obesus blastoid found in Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. Fossil was picked up in the Glen Dean Formation which dates to the Upper Mississippian Period (Carboniferous). For blastoids, this one is large measuring about 3 cm across. Thanks to Herb for letting me photograph
This blastoid takes on a blackish appearance in its photos. Identified as a Pentremites from the Glen Dean Formation of Grayson County, Kentucky. It is dated to the Mississippian Period.