Fossil Identification Guide

These pages illustrate a lot of different kinds of fossils. Within 60 minutes of the Louisville, Kentucky, area, geological time periods represented include: Upper Ordovician, Silurian, Middle – Upper Devonian, and Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous). The Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) is a bit beyond. The Pleistocene is represented by sand & gravel, loess and cave deposits.

Consider all guides to be “works in-progress. Images and information will be added.

Brachiopods               

Bryozoans                  

Corals                        

Echinoderms              

Mollusks

Sponges                

Trace Fossils

Trilobites & Crustaceans         

Misc. Fossils (Plants, wor犀利士 ms, microfossils, problematic, vertebrates)

Waldron Shale Fauna

Cambrictites greenei - a small pyritized goniatite from the Mississippian Coral Ridge fauna of Jefferson Co., KY. Goniatites are ammonoids with undulating sutures.
Cambrictites greenei – a small pyritized goniatite from the Mississippian Coral Ridge fauna of Jefferson Co., KY. Goniatites are ammonoids with undulating sutures.