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Re: paleonet Kentucky Mystery Fossil



Maybe a big arthropod of some kind?    -F

Brandon Nuttall wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> As long as we are examining mystery fossils, how about one from east
> central Kentucky.
> 
>       http://www.uky.edu/KGS/emsweb/fossil/kyfossil.htm
> 
> The fossil occurs as a limonite crust on an iron-rich chert nodule. The
> nodule was found in a creek bed about 1.5 miles southeast of Berea, Madison
> County, east central Kentucky. It is most likely from the Lower
> Mississippian Borden formation. However, the possibility exists that it
> could come from the Devonian New Albany shale.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Brandon C. Nuttall
> 
> BNUTTALL@KGS.MM.UKY.EDU Kentucky Geological Survey
> (859) 257-5500                  University of Kentucky
> (859) 257-1147 (fax)                    228 Mining & Mineral Resources Bldg
> http://www.uky.edu/KGS/home.htm Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0107

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