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DEVONIAN ETYMOLOGY ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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This stretch of limestone gives visitors the opportunity to walk across an ancient sea floor.
Originally a series of rapids from the Ohio River, “The Falls” is now one of the largest naturally exposed, Devonian fossil beds. A colleciton of long extinct  rugosan fossil corals  (horn corals), brachiopods, trilobites, and primitive mollusks. Falls of the Ohio State Park –  Clarksville, Indiana/Louisville, Kentucky
Coal County, Oklahoma The two primary Devonian formations are the Haragan and Bois d' Arc. Over 30 different Devonian trilobite species in about a dozen genera have been described. Acathopyge consanguinea Extremely rare – found at both formations.
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Devonian period(3)

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  • 5. This stretch of limestone gives visitors the opportunity to walk across an ancient sea floor.
  • 6. Originally a series of rapids from the Ohio River, “The Falls” is now one of the largest naturally exposed, Devonian fossil beds. A colleciton of long extinct rugosan fossil corals (horn corals), brachiopods, trilobites, and primitive mollusks. Falls of the Ohio State Park – Clarksville, Indiana/Louisville, Kentucky
  • 7. Coal County, Oklahoma The two primary Devonian formations are the Haragan and Bois d' Arc. Over 30 different Devonian trilobite species in about a dozen genera have been described. Acathopyge consanguinea Extremely rare – found at both formations.