Dry Dredgers Field Trip
March 24, 2007
A Northern Kentucky Byway

Photos by Bill Heimbrock, Mike Bonar and Cindy Striley. Words by Bill Heimbrock

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For the first Dry Dredgers field trip of 2007, we enjoyed a beautiful weather day (mid 70s, partly cloudy) on a state route in Northern Kentucky. This was Kentucky invertebrate surface collecting at it's best. We found a recently graded slope with just the right amount of weathering to have the fossils screaming for us to pick them up. The site exposed a large cross section of the upper Kope. Just a fossil's-throw from the Alexandria submember type locality, the saw Southgate and McMicken members of the Kope and maybe some Mt Hope from the Fairview Formation. 

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There was another big road cut just across the street from us, and it looks like other fossil collectors were hitting that site too.
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Now let's see some of our great fossil finds from that day.


T A B L E    O F    C O N T E N T S

Page 1: The Site and Fossil Hunters
Page 2: Fossils Found That Day: Best Finds - Echinoderms

Page 3: Fossils Found: Cephalopods, Bryozoans and Worm Tubes

Page 4: Fossils Found: Brachiopods, Trilobites and Ichnofossils

Previous Trips to this Kentucky Highway

October 2005
October 2002


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