Fossil Discovery Trunk Inventory
(Subject to change)
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.