Featured Fossil Archive

This page links to past Featured Fossils of all geological time periods.

The Last Featured Fossil....

Fossil Type:     Stromatoporoid

Name:              Syringostroma sp.

Formation:       Jeffersonville Limestone

Age:                  Eifelian, Middle Devonian

Location:          Charlestown, Clark Co., Indiana

Notes:               This is stromatoporoid contains structures that look like a Syringopora tabulate

                           coral. Stromatoporoids were originally placed with corals, but were moved to

                           sponges by paleontologists. Click here for top view. Identified by Dr. Carl Stock.

                           Falls of the Ohio State Park collection.

Date Posted:   June 12, 2013

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Invertebrates

      Micro-fossils          Worms          Arthropods: Non-Trilobite          Trilobites

Brachiopods                    Bryozoans                    Porifera (Sponges) 

Corals:               Rugose                    Tabulate                    Scleractinian

Echinoderms: Crinoids                    Echinoids & Asteroids             Extinct Classes

Mollusks: Bivalves               Cephalopods               Gastropods               Other Mollusks

            Graptolites

Vertebrates

Fish                           Mammals                 Reptiles

Plants

Algae                 Ferns & Horsetails / Primitive Plants           Angiosperms & Gymnosperms

Trace Fossils       Miscellaneous

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Created April 13, 2012, updated June 14, 2013.