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Some Typical Brachiopods from Kentucky

Common Ordovician articulate brachiopods from Kentucky.

common Ordovician articulate brachiopods
typical Ordovician slab showing Platystrophia brachiopods
typical Ordovician slab showing Platystrophia and Rafinesquina
typical Platystrophia
thin, flat Rafinesquina
silicified rhynchonellid brachiopods silicified rhynconellid brachiopods (you can break them open to see quartz)
concentration of Plectambonites
Silurian brachiopods
Atrypa
Devonian brachiopods
Paraspirifer
slab with abundant Brevispirifer
spiriferid brachiopods
Devonian brachiopod

Mississippian brachiopods

unidentified brachiopod
large spiriferid brachiopod
Brachyspirifer
Orthotetes from Paragon Member
brachiopod from northeastern Kentucky
spiriferid from northeastern Kentucky
Anthracospirifer increbescens from Paragon Member
Pennsylvanian brachiopods
productoid brachiopods
Linoproductus replaced by siderite altered to hematite and limonite Linoproductus replaced by siderite altered to hematite and limonite
six productoid brachiopods from the Magoffin Member

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