| State Road 155 Fossils Fisherville, KY US Uploaded By Scott (webmaster) Uploaded on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 08:41:20 PM Viewed 5100 times |
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| 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. " | 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 " |