Featured Fossil

This page will feature fossils from all geological time periods. Each image will have some background about the specimen, its age, where it was found, and a nugget of interesting information.

Not every specimen will be perfectly preserved - but all are a marvel of the natural world!

Fossil Type:     Mollusk (affinity uncertain)

Name:              Tentaculites richmondensis Miller

Formation:       Waynesville

Age:                 Cincinnatian, Upper Ordovician

Location:          Madison, Jefferson Co., Indiana

Notes:               Tentaculites is well-known in Ordovician through Devonian strata. Specimens from

                          the Devonian Hunsruck Shale in Germany show both tentacles and septa in chambers

                          like cephalopods. Note the fragments of Flexicalymene a common trilobite in this

                          formation. Anonymous collection.

Date Posted:  May 23, 2013

Created April 12, 2012