Kentucky Horn Coral Identification

Horn Coral is a realistic Kentucky fossil profile built around solitary rugose coral with tapered horn shape. In this state, success usually comes from learning Devonian shales, Mississippian limestones, and glacial gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.

Key Traits

  • single conical cup
  • radial septa
  • calcite infill
  • Check Devonian shales, Mississippian limestones, and glacial gravels

Era

Silurian-Devonian

Type

coral

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