Fossil Hunting After Watermelon Planting

Last Friday, I finally got my watermelons planted in a field in Hodgenville, Kentucky. It is really late but our growing season has been messed up due to cooler weather in April and May.

On my way back to Louisville, I stopped off at Joe Prather highway and looked for fossils.

I found 4 trilobite tails embedded in a some rocks. So I keep my trend alive at find trilobite pieces on my last 6 outings. I thought this trip would end it since the area is not known for trilobites.

Here is a small shell I found but have not identified yet. It might be some type of Athyris brachiopod but I am not sure Devonian fossils are in this area. It would seem to be maybe from the Mississippian Period (Lower Carboniferous) so maybe it is a Beecheria brachiopod.

Here is a pea sized blastoid head which I was surprised to find. It might be a Pentremites from the Mississippian time period.

Another surprising thing about it is that is black in color.

More fossil pictures

These fossils have been posted before or at least two of them. The pictures are new and I was using a tripod with sunlight and an incandescent bulb to take pictures.

The images are of a dawsonoceras cephalopod, crinoid calyx, and blastoid head.

Fossils

I have some more fossil pictures. One of a crinoid stem with multiple branches.


These are pieces of crinoid calyx.

That brown looking mushroom piece is a crinoid calyx.

Here are some blastoids sitting on a ruler.

More Fossils

Yesterday with the nice weather, took the opportunity to hunt for fossils it was a great trip. I found my first blastoid (see second picture). Very nice horn corals were found and I found another trilobite but only half of one this time.

I will post some more pictures once I them processed.