Dry Dredgers Field Trip
To a Northern Kentucky Road Cut
Southgate Member, Kope Formation
October 23, 2004

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Page 5: Graptolites Found

On this site, the rock surfaces also commonly reveal black "pencil marks" called Grapotolites. These animals were more likely floaters, rather than crawlers. 
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Closer examination of these Graptolites show intricate structures and can help identify the genera and species.
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It takes an even closer look at these graptolites with a 10x loup to be able to identify these specimens as Geniculograptus typicalis.
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Some of these graptolites were 3-dimensional, made out of pyrite.

Others were 3-dimensional in a lighter color. Here's a 3-D graptolite I found that day (below) that is not only pale in color, but appears to have cups on one side only. This is probably a different, less common, genera.

Next Page: Trilobites Found


T A B L E   OF   C O N T E N T S

Page 1: Introduction (collecting pics)

Fossils Found That Day:
Page 2: Crinoids Part 1

Page 3: Crinoids Part 2

Page 4: Burrows

Page 5: Graptolites

Page 6: Trilobites

Page 7: Cephalopods

Page 8: Other Molluscs

Page 9: Brachiopods and Bryozoans

Pics From Our Trip To This Site in 2002


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