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Paleontology in Kentucky refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Kentucky's abundance of exposed sedimentary rock makes it an ideal source of fossils. The geologic column of Kentucky contains rocks deposited during the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and ...
Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus. † Triarthrus. † Triarthrus eatoni. † Triendoceras – tentative report. † Trocholites. † Ulrichicrinus. † Whiteavesia. † Worthenia. † Zadelsdorfia – tentative report.
The Big Bone Lick Historical Association was formed in 1953, and in 1956 purchased 16.66 acres of land, which they deeded to the Kentucky State Commissioner for conservation. In December 1960, the Kentucky Department of Parks began constructing picnic areas, a shelter, and a parking lot. By 1962, the purchase of additional land brought the size ...
Fossils uncovered in Mammoth Cave after millions of years Mammoth Cave , according to the park service, is “the longest known cave in the world,” featuring 426 miles of mapped passageways.
The geology of Kentucky formed beginning more than one billion years ago, in the Proterozoic eon of the Precambrian. The oldest igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock is part of the Grenville Province, a small continent that collided with the early North American continent. The beginning of the Paleozoic is poorly attested and the ...
Maysville roadcut. Coordinates: 38°40′30″N 83°47′48″W. The Maysville roadcut, located in northeastern Kentucky, features upper Ordovician rock and fossils. Maysville is located in Mason County, Kentucky, and contains a large roadcut along U.S. Route 68. The cut was human-made in the 1950s and consists of rock that is roughly 450 ...
The Chattanooga Shale is a geological formation in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. It preserves conodont fossils dating to the Devonian period. [1] It occurs mostly as a subsurface geologic formation composed of layers of shale. It is located in East Tennessee and also extends into southeastern Kentucky ...
Whitmore c. 1967. Frank Clifford Whitmore Jr. (November 17, 1915 – March 18, 2012) was an American geologist including chief of the Military Geology Unit of the United States Geological Survey, vertebrate paleontologist with the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch of the United States Geological Survey, awardee of the Medal of Freedom, fellow of the Geological Society of America, fellow of ...