Cincinnatian Fossils from the Ordovician

Cincinnatian Fossils

From The Ordovician Period

A Guide to the Ordovician Fossils of Southeast Indiana Collected by Jeff Bryant

 
Phyla
 

Arthropoda Cnidaria
Brachiopoda
Molluska
Echinodermata
Bryozoa
Hemichordata
Arthropoda Cnidaria Brachiopoda Molluska Echinodermata Bryozoa Hemichordata

Additional Fossils

This page contains some of the other fossils in my collection that were either purchased or were found in other locations. Information on this latter group may be less detailed.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Schizoramia
Superclass:Arachnomorpha
Class:Trilobita
Order:Phacopida
Suborder:Phacopina
Superfamily:Dalmanitoidea
Family:Dalminitidae
Genus/species: Dalmanites limulurus
Images Dalmanites limulurus Dalmanites limulurus
Notes: Professionally cleaned and purchased specimen. Middleport, New York specimen. Found in Rochester shale.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Subclass:Ammonoidea
Order:Ammonitida
Family:Dactylioceras
Genus/species: Dactylioceras commune
Images Dactylioceras commune
Notes: Professionally cleaned and purchased specimen. From Upper Lias, England. Jurassic specimen.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Schizoramia
Superclass:Arachnomorpha
Class:Trilobita
Order:Phacopida
Suborder:Phacopina
Superfamily:Acastoidea
Family:Acastidae
Subfamily:Asteropyginae
Genus/species: Greenops barberi
Images Greenops barberi
Notes: Pydigium with 5 pairs of spines and one central spine. Northern Indiana specimen measuring 9.7 mm across. This may also be a Comura specimen.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Brachiopoda
Genus/species: Reticulatia
Images Reticulatia
sp. Reticulatia
sp.
Notes: Specimen provided by Vern Swanson of Alexandria, Indiana. Measures 3.70 cm across

Mineral: Manganese Oxide
Genus/species: N/A
Images Manganese Oxide
Notes: Manganese oxide dendrite. Zoomed in view measures 1.65 cm across. Smallest "branches" measure .5 mm or less in length.