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    Apr 2011
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    western KY fossils

    found these fossils in a fresh water spring and creek that runs on our property in western KY. usually I find the best things after a hard rain has washed them out of the underground spring. Picture 1 is a nice shell, the only one I found that was not broken up. Pic 2 is a small group of rogosa horn coral that is fairly common here. Pic 3 I think is a small sand dollar. You can see the star on the back of it. It is the size of a large green pea. Pic 4 I can't recall right off what these are called but they are a type of urchin found in shallow seas. Pic 6 shows the "gills" of one of them. Pic 7 is one of the biggest crinoid stem that I have every found. most of them are broken up into small pieces. this one is 2 inches in length and has many "leaf" stems coming out of it.
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    I want to start a new life with my valuable hunting knife.

    May 2007
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    Re: western KY fossils

    Those are blastoids (Pentramites sp.) not crinoids. Very cool. I have quite a few that I have found in your area. Some are bigger than walnuts.

    Cool post. Cool finds!

    chuck
    I want to start a new life with my valuable hunting knife.

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    Apr 2011
    kentucky
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    Re: western KY fossils

    thanks ohio for the correction. blastoids is what I couldn't remember. a friend of mine at work said this whole area here was a shallow sea at one time. It is truly amazing some of the things I find at that spring. who knows there could be something really big in there.....

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    Mar 2009
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    Re: western KY fossils

    I love those things in pic 4, what a cool shape. I hope you do find something big, happy hunting!

  5. #5
    us
    Oct 2005
    Massachusetts
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    Re: western KY fossils

    Picture 1 is a brachiopod.
    Peter

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    Jul 2004
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    Re: western KY fossils

    after looking at your posts' I might
    get back into fossil collecting again.
    ALLEN

 

 

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