Dry Dredgers Field Trip
April 28, 2001
Northeastern Kentucky
Kope, Fairview and Bellevue Formations
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Some Pictures of Fossils Found That Day.
Perhaps the best find of the day happened in the first 5 minutes of the trip. Norm Shepard found an incredible trilobite burrow (most likely from Isotelus) that has traces of worms that the trilobite may have been eating at the time. Here are some pictures of it.
Norm Shepard with his fine Rusophycus. Congratulations
Norm!
Other trace fossils found included many Diplocraterion biclavatum
as shown below. These burrows can appear as "dumbells" (below) when
seen on the shale surface, or as "U-shaped" burrows when seen along
the edge of a piece of shale.
Ron Fine found a pocket of more than a dozen crinoid calyxes. (not pictured).
Bill Hembrock found a glabella of what is probably an Amphilichas
shideleri. (below) It is cemented to a Vinlandostrophia ponderosa
Brachiopod.
Edrioasteriods were also found, the one pictured below was found by Bill
Heimbrock.
If you found something interesting on this trip, Email your pictures to Bill Heimbrock at webmaster@drydredgers.org.
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