KY Brachiopod and Chrynoidal

beetle662

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Independence, KY
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KY Brachiopod and Chrynoidal

Posted Aug 31, 2010, 08:37:08 am

A couple pics of a Brachiopod and what I believe to be a Chrynoidal fossil. Anyone have any other ideas feel free to let me know. The brachiopods are all around here... full, halves... tiny to large. Thanks for looking!

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LanceHall

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Fort Worth, Tx

Re: KY Brachiopod and Chrynoidal

Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Sep 02, 2010, 03:15:35 pm

I see a brachiopod and maybe an orthocone (straight shelled nautiloid).. don't know what a Chrynoidal is Tongue

Solius Symbiosus

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Re: KY Brachiopod and Chrynoidal

Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Sep 03, 2010, 12:26:02 am

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A couple pics of a Brachiopod and what I believe to be a Chrynoidal fossil. Anyone have any other ideas feel free to let me know.

Collecting the Ordovician, huh? Wink

Your brachiopod is some kind of orthid; most likely a Platystrophia sp., and I agree with Lance that the other fossil is an "orthoceras" cephalopod. Lance, by "chrynoidal" I think that he meant crinoidal.

HERE is a blog that describes some Ordovician fauna from Kentucky and elsewhere, too.