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Catalog No. 0    

Kingdom: Monoaria

Common name: Cyanobacteria – Bluegreen Algae - Stromatolite

Geological formation: Kona Dolostone,

Precambrian (~2.3 billion years old)

Location: Upper Peninsula, Michigan 

Catalog No. 0A    

Kingdom: Monoaria

Common name: Cyanobacteria – Bluegreen Algae - Stromatolite

Geological formation: Banded Jasper-Iron Beds

Precambrian (~2 billion years old)

Location: Upper Peninsula, Michigan 

Catalog No. 1    

Phylum: Porifera (Sponges)         

Class: Stromatoporata

Common name: Stromatoporoid 

Scientific name: Unknown

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Lyndon, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Catalog No. 1A    

Phyla: Porifera (Sponges) & Cnidaria      

Class: Stromatoporata & Class: Anthozoa, Order: Rugosa

Common name: Stromatoporoid with symbiotic coral          Scientific name: Unknown

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Lyndon, Jefferson County, Kentucky 

Catalog No. 2    

Phylum: Porifera  (Sponges)        

Class: Demospongia

Common name: Sponge 

Scientific name: Hindia sphaeroidalis

Geological formation: Beechwood Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky 

Catalog No. 3    

Phylum: Cnidaria            

Class: Anthozoa,              Order: Rugosa

Common name: Horn Coral 

Scientific name: Enallophrentis sp.

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Clark County, Indiana

Catalog No. 4    

Phylum: Cnidaria            

Class: Anthozoa,              Order: Rugosa

Common name: Colonial Coral  

Scientific name: Acrocyathus floriformis

Geological formation: St. Louis Limestone,

Middle Mississippian period

Location: Harrison County, Indiana 

Catalog No. 5    

Phylum: Cnidaria            

Class: Anthozoa,              Order: Tabulata

Common name: Honeycomb Coral 

Scientific name: Favosites sp.

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Clark County, Indiana 

Catalog No. 6    

Phylum: Cnidaria            

Class: Anthozoa,              Order: Tabulata

Common name: Branching Coral 

Scientific name: Thamnopora limitaris (Rominger)

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Jefferson County, Kentucky       

Catalog No. 6A    

Phylum: Cnidaria          

Class: Anthozoa,              Order: Scleractinia

Common name: Branching Coral

Scientific name: Unknown

Holocene (Modern)

Location: Caribbean

Catalog No. 7    

Phylum: Cnidaria?          

Class: Scyphozoa

Common name: Conularid 

Scientific name: Paraconularia sp.

Geological formation: Muldraugh Formation,

Middle Mississippian period

Location: Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky 

Catalog No. 8    

Phylum: Arthropoda        

Class: Trilobita

Common name: Trilobite  

Scientific name: Phacops sp.

Geological formation: North Vernon Formation,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Sellersburg, Clark County, Indiana        

Catalog No. 9    

Phylum: Arthropoda        

Class: Trilobita

Common name: Trilobite

Scientific name: Calymene breviceps

Geological formation: Louisville Limestone,

Middle Silurian period

Location: Indiana 

Catalog No. 9A    

Phylum: Arthropoda        

Class: Trilobita

Common name: Trilobite

Scientific name: Elrathia kingii

Geological formation: Wheeler Shale

Middle Cambrian period

Location: Utah  

Catalog No. 10    

Phylum: Arthropoda        

Class: Trilobita

Common name: Trilobite

Scientific name: Glyptambon verrucosa

Geological formation: Waldron Shale,

Middle Silurian period

Location: Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana 

Catalog No. 10A    

Phylum: Arthropoda        

Class: Ostracoda

Common name: Ostracod                 

Geological formation: Florissant Formation

Early Oligocene Epoch

Location: Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado               

Catalog No. 10B    

Phylum: Arthropoda        

Class: Insecta

Common name: Insects (true bugs?)        

Geological formation: Florissant Formation

Early Oligocene Epoch

Location: Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado 

Catalog No. 11    

Phylum: Mollusca         

Class: Gastropoda

Common name: Snail

Scientific name: Platyceras (Platystoma) niagarensis (Hall)

Geological formation: Waldron Shale,

Middle Silurian period

Location: Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana 

Catalog No. 11A    

Phylum: Mollusca        

Class: Gastropoda Common name: Moon shell  

Scientific name: Polinices

Geological formation: Chesapeake Formation,

Miocene epoch

Location: Maryland 

Catalog No. 12    

Phylum: Mollusca        

Class: Pelecypoda

Common name: Clam  

Scientific name: Ischyrodonta sp.

Geological formation: Grant Lake Formation

Upper Ordovician period

Location: Taylorsville, Spencer County, Kentucky 

Catalog No. 12A    

Phylum: Mollusca        

Class: Pelecypoda

Common name: River mussel 

Scientific name: Quadrula

Holocene

Location: Ohio River 

Catalog No. 12B    

Phylum: Mollusca    

Class: Pelecypoda

Common name: Edible mussel 

Scientific name: Mytilis edulis

Holocene

Location: World-wide oceanic distribution 

Catalog No. 13    

Phylum: Mollusca     

Class: Cephalopoda

Common name: Cephalopod

Scientific name: “Orthoceras” sp.

Geological formation: Grant Lake Formation

Upper Ordovician period

Location: Taylorsville, Spencer County, Kentucky 

Catalog No. 13A    

Phylum: Mollusca   

Class: Cephalopoda

Common name: Ammonite

Cretaceous period

Location: Western U.S. 

Catalog No. 13B    

Phylum: Mollusca   

Class: Cephalopoda

Common name: Baculite  

Scientific name: Baculites  sp.

Geological formation: Unknown, possibly Pierre shale

Cretaceous period

Location: South Dakota or a Rocky Mountain state 

Catalog No. 14    

Phylum: Brachiopoda    

Class: Articulata

Common name: Brachiopod 

Scientific name: Pseudatrypa sp.

Geological formation: North Vernon Formation,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana 

Catalog No. 15

Phylum: Brachiopoda                            

Class: Articulata

Common name: Brachiopod  

Scientific name: Orthospirifer fornacula

Geological formation: North Vernon Formation,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana

Catalog No. 16

Phylum: Brachiopoda                            

Class: Articulata

Common name: Brachiopod 

Scientific name: Platystrophia ponderosa

Geological formation: Grant Lake Formation

Upper Ordovician period

Location: Taylorsville, Spencer County, Kentucky

Catalog No. 17

Phylum: Brachiopoda                            

Class: Articulata

Common name: Brachiopod  

Scientific name: Protoleptostrophia perplana

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Jefferson County, Kentucky     

Catalog No. 18

Phylum Bryozoa          

Class: Stenolaemata

Common Name: Moss Animal

Scientific name: Polypora (fenestrate) and Fistulipora (mat)

Geological formation: Glen Dean Limestone

Upper Mississippian period

Location: Crawford Co., Indiana

Catalog No. 19

Phylum Bryozoa          

Class: Stenolaemata

Common Name: Moss Animal 

Scientific name: Archimedes sp.

Geological formation: Indian Springs Shale

Upper Mississippian period

Location: Crawford Co., Indiana

Catalog No. 20

Phylum Bryozoa          

Class: Stenolaemata

Common Name: Moss Animal,  

Scientific name: Dekayia sp.

Geological formation: Drakes Formation

Upper Ordovician period

Location: Taylorsville, Spencer County, Kentucky

Catalog No. 21

Phylum Echinodermata          

Class: Crinoidea

Common name: Crinoid column                 

Geological formation: New Providence Formation

Middle Mississippian period

Location: Bullitt Co., Kentucky

Catalog No. 22

Phylum Echinodermata        

Class: Crinoidea

Common name: Crinoid columns in matrix    

Geological formation: New Providence Formation

Middle Mississippian period

Location: Bullitt Co., Kentucky

Catalog No. 23

Phylum Echinodermata   

Classes: Crinoidea, Rhombifera, etc.

Echinoderm plates & columns in container    

Middle Ordovician period

Location: Jefferson Co., Missouri

Catalog No. 24

Phylum Echinodermata                

Class: Crinoidea

Common name: Crinoid head (calyx)

Scientific name: Dizygocrinus                           

Middle Mississippian period

Location: Hardin Co., Kentucky

Catalog No. 25

Phylum Echinodermata               

Class: Blastoidea

Common name: Blastoid “head” = body

Scientific name: Pentremites

Geological formation: Indian Springs Shale

Upper Mississippian period

Location: Crawford Co., Indiana                        

Catalog No. 26

Phylum Chordata

Devonian bone bed material (fish remains)

Geological formation: Jeffersonville Limestone,

Middle Devonian period

Location: Jefferson County, Kentucky             

Catalog No. 27                                                       

Phylum Chordata

Common name: Fossil Fish

Scientific name: Knightia sp.

Geological formation: Green River Formation                   

Eocene epoch

Location: Kemmerer, Wyoming

Catalog No. 28

Phylum Chordata

Common name: Mammoth tusk fragment

Scientific name: Mammut sp.

Pleistocene epoch

Location: Clark Co., Indiana

Catalog No. 29

Plant Kingdom

Common name: Petrified wood           

Scientific name: Callixylon newberryi 

Geological formation: New Albany Shale

Middle Devonian period

Catalog No. 30

Plant Kingdom

Common name: Plant debris                

Geological formation: Florissant Formation

Early Oligocene epoch

Location: Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado       

Catalog No. 31

Plant Kingdom

Common name: Fern leaf                     

Scientific name: Pecopteris sp.                                 

Geological formation: Unknown

Pennsylvanian period

Terre Haute, Indiana

Catalog No. 32

Plant Kingdom

Common name: Fern leaf                     

Scientific name: Annularia sp.

Geological formation: Unknown

Pennsylvanian period

Terre Haute, Indiana

Catalog No. 33

Microfossils in limestone (many Globendothyra foraminifera)

Geological formation: Salem Limestone

Middle Mississippian period

Location: Washington Co., Indiana

Note: This is the “Indiana Building Stone” commonly used around North America.