Fossil Hunting at the Maysville Roadcut - Incredible Ordovician Treasures
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2022
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This spot is located just outside of Maysville, Kentucky. It is on the side of the road so please be safe if you choose to visit for yourself. Fossils found here are Ordovician in age and include trilobites, cephalopods, gastropods, brachiopods, bryozoans and more!
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That last find was fantastic.
So glad you showed up on yt in my iPad! Just joined up!😊
Those black specks that you couldn't ID are pieces of the trilobite called Isotelus.
Great finds. You cannot beat fossil hunting. Thank you for the video.
Cool video. I wish I was near fossils.
Dope. Always a good time peeling back the layers to see where Earth was to see where we are going
Nice fossils! The cephalapod is a jaw dropper!
Amazing video, thank you for sharing!!
Great video guys and really cool finds ❤
A super orthoconic nautiloid at the end there and I love those Parvohallopora ramosa!
Very interesting fossils. Thanks for sharing.
Nice outcrop
Whoa! What a cool spot. I like all the factoids you gave too. That last cephalopod was sweet!
Thank you! It was our first time there so we weren't sure what to expect, but it ended up being such a great spot.
wow! that site is unreal! plates everywhere! i could spend easily all day at a place like that.
I wish we would have allocated a full day here, we had planned for an hour and ended up spending about three hours there and even then didn't want to leave.
So many awesome fossils. I would have my van full before I left. Lol.
If I didn't already have most of the trunk space allocated for geodes we were going to collect later that day I would have to! It's an awesome spot.
Just this past weekend I found two 2" x 3" (roughly those dimensions) fossils when I was digging up my garden bed. I found them in a clay deposit and started to clean them. I had no idea that's what I had found. The two pieces have shells and what appears to be very old coral? Awesome video.
Sounds like some great finds!
Looks like it's pretty chilly in Kentucky right now! Love the Crinoids, I always think they look like Spaghtios lol. The gastropods are SUPER cool. Also, I think Trilobite butts should be right up there with Bumblebee butts :D
This was a few weeks ago but it was pretty chilly, probably colder now with the current snow storm. And yes trilobites butts are definitely up there with bumblebee butts!
@@RockandRoadRockhounding Looks like we missed the Storm here in Northern Michigan. Been loving the Thunderegg results on IG!
@@GrandTreasureBay Nice, we've gotten hit with at least 6 to 8 inches so far here in Cleveland, maybe more and it hasn't stopped yet. And thanks! I can't wait to see what's inside some of your new thundereggs!
@@RockandRoadRockhounding 😮😮😮 that's a lot of snow! Even for Northern Michigan, that's a healthy amount of snow. Ill be posting soon at least one!
I would have picked up all those tiny bryozoan pieces 😆 what a cool spot! You should see the cephalopod fossil I got from my buddy Adam! It’s like forearm size!
I picked up a few of them, but yeah I wish I would picked them all up!
@@RockandRoadRockhounding I love fossils some bivalve fossils
Were y'all hunting in the Drakes formation?
6:43 looks to me to be a molt fragment from an Isotelus.
Wow! That's a seriously loaded fossil area! What do you do with those plates, just sell them as is?
I'll probably sell some as is, but I got an airscribe for Christmas so as soon as it's warm enough I want to try and prep some of the pieces.
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This was just outside of Maysville, Kentucky - along state route 68 just before the bridge over the Ohio River
Was this on Route 9?! I live RIGHT off the sucker, is why I'm asking!
This was the Rt 62/ Rt 68 bypass around Maysville, looks like it was pretty close to Rt 9 so any roadcuts on Route 9 probably have similar material.
At 9:40 the piece you are holding has something in it about a third of the way down from the top and almost centered left to right that looks like a fossilized thistle flower. Obviously, it's not that, do you know what it is? Do you find any whole trilobites or crinoids there?
I think it's probably part of a bryozoan, but I'm not 100% sure, it's one of the ones I'm super curious about though so I might try to expose more of it with my air scribe once it's a little warmer out. As far as whole trilobites, we might have found some whole ones but they'll need prepped out of the rock, no loose ones unfortunately. And only segments of crinoids as far as I can tell, but I know some people have found some nice crinoid calyxes at this spot.
Is this 62 or 68 road cut?