State Road 155 Fossils Uploaded By Scott (webmaster) Uploaded on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 08:41:20 PM Viewed 5214 times |
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Details: For details go to the Travel Channel's treasure wiki page for Kentucky. Here is what the defunct link says: "General description: Types of fossils: brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, conodonts, corals, gastropods, monoplacophorans, pelecypods, scolecodont teeth, stromatoporoids, trace fossils, trilobites. Mineralized brachiopods, aulocerid stromatoporoids and colonial corals with calcite, dolomite, celestine and other minerals. This link contains a number of collecting sites : http://www.fallsoftheohio.org/collecting.html Great site for fossil information. How to get there: State Road 155 between Fisherville (Jefferson Co.), KY and Taylorsville (Spencer Co.), KY Type of exposure: Road cut Rock type: interbedded shale and limestone Grade this location: (A to F): GPS coordinates: Handy to bring along: 1. Hand tools 2. Rock bag 3. Rock hammer Helpful notes to newcomers: Kentucky has designated the generic "brachiopod" as its state fossil. "
Directions: For directions go to the Travel Channel's treasure wiki page for Kentucky. From the link: "How to get there: State Road 155 between Fisherville (Jefferson Co.), KY and Taylorsville (Spencer Co.), KY Type of exposure: Road cut Rock type: interbedded shale and limestone "
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Tags: brachiopods bryozoans cephalopods conodonts corals gastropods monoplacophorans pelecypods scolecodont teeth stromatoporoids trace fossils trilobites Mineralized brachiopods aulocerid stromatoporoids and colonial corals with calcite dolomite celestine fisherville taylorsville kentucky state road sr 155 jefferson spencer county
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