Cincinnatian Fossils from the Ordovician

Cincinnatian Fossils

From The Ordovician Period

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

Ambonychia sp.
Augustoceras sp.
Catazyga headi
Cincinnaticrinus pentagonus
Cyclonema sp.
Favistina stellata
Flexicalymene meeki
graptolite
Grewingkia canadensis
Herbertella sp.
Hiscobeccus capax
Isotelus sp.
Lambyoceras sp.
Leptaena richmondensis
Monticulipora sp.
Onniella meeki
Parvohallopora sp.
pelycopod
Platyostoma niagarense
Platystrophia clarksvillensis
Platystrophia acutilirata
Rafinesquina ponderosa
Richmondoceras sp.
Tentaculites richmondensis
Treptoceras sp.


Related Pages

Cincinnatian Fossils Home
Ordovician Environment
My Other Fossils
Homepage of Jeff Bryant
Dry Dredgers
Guide to Trilobites

Other Pages

Vendian Period
Cambrian Period
Burgess Shale
Burgess Shale Fauna
Mazon Creek Fossils
!tzalist Science Directory
 
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.