Photographs of Fossils Found on KPS Fieldtrips

Photographs copyrighted by Rick Schrantz, 1998, 1999, 2000 More information about the field trips and their lists of fossils can be found in the section on Past Field Trips.

Bacteria and algae

• Red algae, Ordovician, Winchester Field Trip

Porifera (Sponges)

• Hindia, a Devonian sponge, Bardstown Field Trip
• Sponge, Mississippian from the Borden Formation, West-Central Kentucky Field Trip
• Stromatoporoid (calcareous sponge), Ordovician, Winchester Field Trip
• branching sponge from the Bull Fork Fm. (Ordovician), Owingsville Field Trip
• 15-inch-diameter Brachiospongia, probably the largest ever found, Ordovician of central Kentucky.
• nice Brachiospongia specimen., Ordovician of central Kentucky.
• A more 3-D Brachiospongia specimen, Ordovician of central Kentucky..
• A side view of 3-D Brachiospongia specimen, Ordovician of central Kentucky..

Cnidaria (corals and related animals)

• Grewingkia horn coral, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Predation borings on Grewingkia horn coral, Ordovician, Maysville Field Trip
• Halysites chain coral, Silurian, Louisville Field Trip
• Tabulate coral, Ordovician, Taylorsville Field Trip
• Uncrushed Conularia, encrusted and preserved by bryozoan, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Conularia sp., counterpart, from the Logana Mbr., Lexington Ls., Frankfort Field Trip.
• Conularia, Borden Fm. (Mississippian), Louisville Field Trip
• encrusting Protarea richmondensis coral on Rafinesquina, Ordovician, Route One Field Trip
• rugose coral, silicified, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
• branching coral, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
• Conularia sp., three dimensional, Clays Ferry Fm., Frankfort Field Trip

Vermes (catch all for worms)

• Cornulites worm tubes on 3 different brachiopods (Hebertella, Strophomena, Platystrophia), Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Cyclostome bryozoan and Cornulites worm tubes encrusting Rafinesquina brachiopod, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
• Tentaculites richmondensis from the Bull Fork Fm. (Ordovician), Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip

Byrozoa (colonial moss animals)

• Cyclostome bryozoan and Cornulites worm tubes encrusting Rafinesquina brachiopod, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
• Archimedes bryozoan, Mississippian, Jackson County Field Trip
• Archimedes bryozoan showing screwlike axis and part of the fan, from the Haney Mbr., Slade Limestone, Olive Hill Field Trip
• Prasopora bryozoan from the Lexington Limestone (Sulphur Well Member)(Ordovician). Note the bore holes caused by another animal.
• fenestrate bryozoan, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
• Evactinopora bryozoan (note star shape) from the Borden Fm. (Mississippian), West-Central Kentucky Field Trip
• Constellaria bryozoan from the lower tongue of the Clays Ferry Fm. (Ordovician), Frankfort Field Trip

Brachiopoda (lamp shells)

• Zygospira brachiopod cluster, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
• Orbiculoidea inarticulate brachiopod, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
• Lingula inarticulate brachiopod, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
• Cyclostome bryozoan and Cornulites worm tubes encrusting Rafinesquina brachiopod, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
• Brachiopods from the Magoffin Member (specimen on lower left is a pelecypod), Pennsylvanian, Hazard, KY Field Trip
• Hebertella brachiopod, Ordovician, Owingsville Field Trip
• Platystophia brachiopod, Ordovician, Maysville Field Trip
• Hebertella brachiopod with edrioasteroids encrusting it, Ordovician, Owingsville Field Trip
• Rafinesquina brachiopod, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Strophomena brachiopod, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Atrypa brachiopod, North Vernon Ls.., Devonian, Clark Co., IN
• Spinocyrtia brachiopod, North Vernon Ls., Devonian, Clark Co., IN
• various Waldron Shale brachiopods, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
• Philhedra and Petrocrania inarticulate brachiopods and a bryozoan fighting for space on a Rafinesquina, Ordovician, Route One Field Trip
• Petrocrania inarticulate brachiopod attached to Rafinesquina, Ordovician, Route One Field Trip
• encrusting Protarea richmondensis coral on Rafinesquina, Ordovician, Route One Field Trip
• the spiral brachidia of Atrypa, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
• predatory (snail?) borings in Atrypa, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
• Eucalyptocrinites calyx with attached Petrocrania inarticulate brachiopod, Silurian, Clark Co., IN

Arthropoda

1. Crustacea
   • Teichochilina jonesi ostracodes from the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) in Lexington. This one has a noticable hump in the center (the small bump is the eye tubercle. This could be a "pregnant" female and this bump might be the brood pouch, Lexington Field Trip.
   • Teichochilina jonesi, an isochilinid ostracode from the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) in Lexington.
   • Large ostracodes (the bean-shaped fossils) from the Camp Nelson Formation (Middle Ordovician), the oldest formation at the surface in Kentucky. Specimen from US 27 near the Kentucky River in Jessamine County.
2. Trilobita
   • Isotelus trilobite, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • enrolled Isotelus trilobite, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Isotelus trilobite hypostome from the Ordovician of Flemingsburg, Kentucky; 1.75 inches wide.
   • Isotelus trilobite, enrolled, from Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip.
   • Isotelus trilobite, weathered to reveal the hypostome in approximate life position, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Platylichas trilobite, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Enrolled Flexicalymene trilobite, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Rusophycus (trilobite burrow), Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Isotelus? trilobite tracks, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Flexicalymene trilobite, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Ceraurus milleranus trilobite, head, Fairview Fm., Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Ceraurus milleranus trilobite, hypostome (mouth structure), Fairview Fm., Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Ceraurus milleranus trilobite, Fairview Fm., Ordovician
   • Eomonorachus sp. trilobite glabella, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Ceraurus sp. trilobite pygidium, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Calymene celebra trilobite, Silurian, Bardstown Field Trip
   • Arctinurus occidentalis trilobite cephalon with front projection, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Glyptambon verrucosus (formerly Dalmanites) trilobite compound eye, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Glyptambon trilobite head, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Litotix armata (formerly Bumastus) trilobite head, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Calymene breviceps as found and cleaned, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Calymene breviceps from another angle, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Trimerus trilobite, enrolled, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Flexicalymene trilobites after air-abrasive cleaning, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip.
   • Phacops trilobite, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
   • Glyptambon trilobite pygidium, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Primaspis trilobite from the Clays Ferry (Ordovician) from Danville Field Trip.
   • Flexicalymene meeki trilobite, enrolled, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip.
   • Flexicalymene granulosa trilobite, enrolled, notice the tiny bumps on the surface, Kope Fm., Upper Ordovician, northern Kentucky.

Mollusca (sea shells)

1. Miscellaneous
   • various silicified mollusks (pelecypod on left, rest are gastropods), Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
2. Gastropoda (snails)
   • Cyclonema gastropod, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoid with coprophagus Cyclonema snail attached, Ordovician, Maysville Field Trip
   • Photographs High-spired gastropods, Ordovician, Lexington Field Trip
   • silicified snails, Ordovician Perryville Mbr. of the Lexington Limestone, Danville Field Trip
   • More Magoffin fossils, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip
   • Platyostoma niagarense gastropod, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • gastropod with spines from the Borden Fm. (Mississippian), Olive Hill Field Trip
   • predatory (snail?) borings in Atrypa, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
3. Pelecypoda (clams)
   • Marine fossils from the Magoffin Member (specimen on lower left is pelecypod, rest are brachiopods), Pennyslvanian, Hazard Field Trip
   • More Magoffin fossils (all gastropods except for lowest middle which is a pelecypod and lowest left which is an echinoid spine base), Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip
   • Ambonychia pelecypod, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • clam from the Silurian Waldron Shale, Clark Co., IN
   • clam from the Ordovician Logana Mbr. of the Lexington Ls., Frankfort Field Trip
   • pectinid pelecypod from the Mississippian of western Kentucky
   • clam, silicified, Devonian, Clark Co., IN
   • clam, Ordovician, Owingsville Field Trip
4. Cephalopoda (squids, octopi, etc.)
   • Muensteroceras ammonoid, Borden Fm. (Mississippian), Morehead Field Trip
   • Meunsteroceras sp. ammonoid, partly pyritized, broken out of a nodule, Borden Fm. (Mississippian), Morehead Field Trip
   • goniatite, New Providence Shale, Mississippian, Louisville Field Trip
   • Mercanites sp. ammonoid, Borden Fm. (Mississippian), Morehead Field Trip
   • cephalopod, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Dawsenoceras nautiloid cephalopod, Silurian, Napoleon, IN Field Trip
   • giant cephalopod , from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • large coiled nautiloid Metacoceras?, Magoffin Mbr. (Pennsylvanian), Hazard Field Trip.

Echinodermata (spiny-skinned invertebrates)

1. Asterozoa (starfish)
   • starfish, partial, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Ordovician starfish found in the Clays Ferry Fm., in Scott County
   • starfish, Fairview Fm.?, Ordovician, Nicholas County.
2. Cystoidea and related (cystoids)
   • Holocystites scutellatus cystoid, Silurian, Napoleon, IN Field Trip
   • Triamara ventricosa cystoid, Silurian, Napoleon, IN Field Trip
   • Holocystites alternatus cystoid, Silurian, Napoleon, IN Field Trip
   • Holocystites scutellatus cystoid with stem attached, Silurian, Napoleon, IN Field Trip
   • Brockocystis rhombiferan stem structure, Silurian Brassfield Fm., Owingsville Trip
   • Brockocystis rhombiferan stem structure, drawing, Silurian Brassfield Fm., Owingsville Trip
   • Anartiocystis whitei, a new species, Silurian, Brassfield Fm., Owingville Field Trip
   • Anartiocystis whitei pectinirhomb, a new species, Silurian, Brassfield Fm., Owingville Field Trip
   • Caryocrinites cystoid, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Holocystites scutellatus cystoid with encrusting crinoid holdfast , Silurian, Osgood Fm., Napoleon Field Trip
3. Blastoidea (blastoids)
   • Devonian blastoid from the Sellersburg Ls., Bardstown Field Trip
   • Pentremites blastoid, Mississippian, Jackson County Field Trip
   • Pentremites blastoid, the top or oral surface, shows the pentagonal (five-fold)-radial symmetry typical of most echinoderms, Mississippian, Jackson County Field Trip
   • Pentremites blastoids, Mississippian, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Pentremites blastoid showing unusual feature of radial plate, Mississippian, Hopkinsville Trip
   • Pentremites blastoid showing hole drilled by predatory gastropod, Mississippian, Hopkinsville Trip
   • Pentremites blastoids, Mississippian, Wax Field Trip
   • blastoid shows traces of the original animal coloration specimen, Mississippian, Wax Field Trip
   • Pentremites elegans blastoid with the delicate brachioles still attached to the ambulacra on one side, but not the other. The preserved side probably ended up face down in the mud. Mississippian, Big Hill Field Trip
   • blastoid, Mississippian, Nada Member, Olive Hill Field Trip
4. Crinoidea (crinoids, sea lilies)
   • Carabocrinus sp. crinoid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Daedalocrinus sp. crinoid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Dendrocrinus crinoid, lower tongue of the Clays Ferry Fm. (Ordovician), Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cincinnaticrinus crinoid, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • crinoid holdfasts, lower Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Ectenocrinus crinoid, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Ectenocrinus crinoids found in the Ordovician Kope Fm. in northern Kentucky
   • Glyptocrinus crinoid, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoid, arms splayed out, Ordovician, Maysville trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoid, with coprophagus snail near tegmen, Ordovician, Maysville trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoid, Ordovician, Maysville trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoid tegmen, Ordovician, Maysville trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoid with coprophagus Cyclonema snail attached, Ordovician, Maysville Field Trip
   • double crinoid holdfast, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Paraglyptocrinus crinoid, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Iocrinus sp. crinoid, float prob. from Grier Mbr., Lexington Ls., Ordovician, quarry near Georgetown.
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Cyclonema gastropod feeding on Glyptocrinus waste, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Eretmocrinus crinoid, Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip
   • Eucalyptocrinites crinoid, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Eucalyptocrinites crinoid holdfast, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Saccocrinus crinoid, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Eucalyptocrinites crinoid arms and crushed calyx, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Eucalyptocrinites crinoid, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • crinoid holfast encrusting a bryozoan which is itself encrusting a Leptaena brachiopod, from the Silurian Waldron Shale, Clark Co., IN
   • Eucalyptocrinites calyx with attached Petrocrania inarticulate brachiopod, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Eucalyptocrinites crinoid with stem, Silurian, Clark Co., IN
   • Eucalyptocrinites crinoid with a Platyostoma snail attached, Silurian, Waldron Shale, Clark Co., IN
   • Saccocrinus calyx, Silurian, Waldron Shale, Clark Co., IN
   • Mississippian crinoid stems, giant size, Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip
   • Actinocrinites sp., Mississippian, from the Nada Mbr. at Olive Hill
   • Dizygocrinus sp., Mississippian, from the Nada Mbr. at Olive Hill
   • Uperocrinus nashvillae, Mississippian, from the Nada Mbr. at Olive Hill
   • Flexible crinoid, Mississippian, from the Nada Mbr. at Olive Hill
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoids, before preparation, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoids, after air abrasive preparation, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoids, view of tegmen (upper part), Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus crinoids, with attached coprophagus Cyclonema snails, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Glyptocrinus decadactylus, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Pycnocrinus dyeri crinoid, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Difference between Glyptocrinus and Pycnocrinus, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Dendrocrinus crinoid, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Dendrocrinus crinoid, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Dendrocrinus crinoid, with long anal tube, Clays Ferry Fm., Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • crinoid holdfast attached to a crinoid stem (from the Mississippian Borden Fm. of west-central Kentucky)
   • unknown crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   •  Hybocrinus sp. crinoid with the stem bending around on top of the calyx, from the Curdsville (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Daedalocrinus crinoid lying on a Brachiospongia, from the Curdsville (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • dorsal cup of stemmless crinoid Paragassizocrinus tarri, Magoffin Mbr. (Pennsylvanian), Hazard Field Trip
   • Cleiocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid, large unprepared specimen from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • complete Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid, with stem, cup, arms, and pinnules
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid with stem from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Archaeocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Daedalocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Daedalocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Daedalocrinus sp. crinoid, notice the spiral shaped anal tube, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Reteocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Reteocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Reteocrinus sp. crinoid, fancy plate pattern, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Cupulocrinus sp. crinoids from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Cupulocrinus sp. crinoid from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Cupulocrinus sp. crinoid different species with a narrower calyx and arms, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Paradiabolocrinus teres from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Synbathocrinus swallovi Hall from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Unidentified crinoid arms from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Cyathocrinites iowensis from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Dizygocrinus sp. from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Dorycrinus gouldi from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Eretmocrinus sp. from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Holocrinus nodobrachiatus from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • unknown cladid crinoid from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Springericrinus magniventrus from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Actinocrinites pernodosus from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Rhodocrinites sp. from the Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Platycrinites sp. crinoid calyx , Mississippian, Nada Mbr., Borden Fm., I-64, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Abatocrinus, Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Synbathocrinus, Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Agaricocrinus , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Alloprosallocrinus , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Catillocrinus , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Gaulocrinus , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Halysiocrinus , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Platycrinites , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Eretmocrinus , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

   • Cyathocrinites , Fort Payne Formation, Lower Mississippian, Lake Cumberland Field Trip

5. Edrioasteroids
   • 6-armed Foerstediscus edrioasteroid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Forstediscus edrioasteroid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Forstediscus edrioasteroid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Edrioaster priscus edrioasteroid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Hebertella brachiopod with edrioasteroids encrusting it, Ordovician, Owingsville Field Trip
   • six-armed Cystaster edrioasteroid, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Isorophus or Isorophusella edrioasteroid, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Cystaster edrioasteroids, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • Lebetodiscus edrioasteroid, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
   • Carneyella pilea edrioasteroid, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Streptaster sp., Ordovician, Maysville
   • Streptaster sp., edrioasteroid, Fairview Fm., U. Ordovician, Maysville
   • Torqueresidiscus kypsi specimen 1, holotype, fossil named after KPS, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • Torqueresidiscus kypsi specimen 2, fossil named after KPS, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • Torqueresidiscus kypsi specimen 3, fossil named after KPS, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • Torqueresidiscus kypsi underside showing scar where it was attached to a clam(?), West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • Torquerisediscus kypsi, specimen 4
   • Torquerisediscus kypsi, specimen 5
   • Ulrichidiscus spinosus, holotype, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • Neoisorophusella sp., from the Haney Mbr., Slade Fm. (Mississippian), Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Edrioaster priscus, front, from the Curdsville (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip, 35 mm diameter
   • Edrioaster priscus, back, from the Curdsville (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip,
6. Echinoid (sea urchin)
   • Echinoid (sea urchin) plates, probably Archaeocidaris, Olive Hill, Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • unidentified echinoid, Paragon Fm., Late Mississippian, Big Hill Field Trip
7. Other echinoderms
   • Amygdalocystites florealis paracrinoids from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Amygdalocystites florealis partial paracrinoid showing pinnules, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Amygdalocystites florealis paracrinoid, Curdsville Mbr., (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Bistomiacystis n. sp. paracrinoid, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Cyclocystoid, Ordovician, Winchester, KY Field Trip
   • Narrawayella cincinnatiensis cyclocystoid, Ordovician, Maysville
   • unidentified ophiuroid (brittle star), Paragon Fm., Late Mississippian, Big Hill Field Trip

Chordata (chordates) plus Hemichordates, Graptozoa, Conodonta, etc.

1. Graptozoa
   • Climacograptus graptolite, Clays Ferry Formation, Ordovician, Danville Field Trip
   • dendroid graptolite, from the Curdsville Mbr. (Ordovician), Garrard County Field Trip
   • Dendroid graptolite, Bisher Formation, Silurian, Lewis Co., Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
   • Graptolite, 3-D, Kope Formation, Ordovician, at the Orphanage Road site in northern Kentucky
2. Vertebrata (vertebrates)
   • Psammodus sp. shell-crushing tooth of fish, Mississippian, Olive Hill Field Trip
   • Front and back of large cladodontid shark tooth, Mississippian, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation
   • Close-up of large cladodont shark tooth above, Mississippian, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation
   • Small cladodont teeth, West-Central Kentucky, Borden Formation (Mississippian)
   • anthracosaur (amphibian) footprints, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip, slab showing several poorly-formed prints and schwimmspüren (see tetrapod trackway page)
   • anthracosaur footprints, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip (see tetrapod trackway page)

Plantae

• Callixylon newberri wood (polished slab), Devonian, New Albany Shale, Liter's & Clark Co., IN
• Callixylon newberri wood, X50, same specimen as above
• Annularia, Pennsylvanian, Hazard, KY Field Trip
• Sphenopteris seed fern, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip
• Neuropteris seed fern, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip
• Annularia, another one, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip
• leaves ("Lepidophylloides") of a lycopod (scale tree), Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip
• leaf 1, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

• fruit of an aquatic plant called Ceratophyllum, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

• leaf 3, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

• leaf 4, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

• leaf 5, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

• Bald Cypress leaf, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

• lignitized wood, Eocene, Claiborne Fm., Mayfield Area Field Trip

Trace Fossils (Ichnofossils)

• Rusophycus (trilobite burrow), Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Isotelus? trilobite tracks, Ordovician, Maysville to Vanceburg Field Trip
• Zoophycus trace fossil found in the Mississippian Cowbell Mb. of the Borden Fm in northeastern Kentucky
• shallow Rusophycus abruptly turning to intersect a worm burrow and getting deeper, Silurian Bisher Fm. of n.e. Kentucky.
• Rusophycus intersecting a worm burrow, Silurian Bisher Fm. of n.e. Kentucky.
• Rusophycus intersecting several worm burrows, Silurian Bisher Fm. of n.e. Kentucky.
• Rusophycus with "struggle" marks over a worm burrow, Silurian Bisher Fm. of n.e. Kentucky.
• Trace fossil from the same formation as the Rusophycus, Silurian Bisher Fm. of n.e. Kentucky.
• Predation borings on Grewingkia horn coral, Ordovician, Maysville Field Trip
• anthracosaur (amphibian) footprints, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip, slab showing several poorly-formed prints and schwimmspüren (see tetrapod trackway page)
• anthracosaur footprints, Pennsylvanian, Hazard Field Trip (see tetrapod trackway page)

Sedimentary structures and other geologic features

• Large ripple marks, Ordovician, Frankfort Field Trip
• breccia slab cut open to show the angular chunks of rock within, Jeptha Knob Field Trip

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