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Ordovician Fossils

These are examples of the excellent fossils that can be found in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. All fossils pictured below where found by Michael Vanden Berg.

 

Typical Ordovician Sediments - Shales and limestones

 

Flexicalymene meeki

Caritodens demissa

Cephalopods

Cephalopod

 

Cephalopod

Constellaria polystomella

Cryptolithus bellulus

Favistina stellata

 

Grewingkia canadensis

Inarticulate brachiopod

Isotelus maximus

genal spine

Loxoplocus bowdeni

 

Onniella meeki

Platystrophia clarksvillensis

Platystrophia cypha

Rafinesquina ponderosa

 

Tentaculites richmondensis

Thaerodonta clarksvillensis

Chondrites

Diplocraterion biclavatum

 

Carneyella pilea

Carneyella ulrichi

Cyclonema bilix lata

 Ordovician Fauna

 

Leptaena richmondensis

Cephalopod

 

Crinoid holdfasts

Ambonychia robusta

 

Anomalodonta gigantea

Crinoid stems

 

Cyrtolites ornatus

Cystoid plates

 

Glyptocrinus dyeri

Hebertella occidentalis

 

Hiscobeccus capax

Isorophus cincinnatiensis

 

Isotophus cincinnatiensis

Bryozoan

 

Carneyella pilea

Plaesiomys subquadrata

 

Stigmatella crenulata

Stigmatella crenulata

 

Strophomena sp.

Carneyella ulrichi

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Last updated on 9/7/01