Brachiopod Gallery

Brachiopods are marine animals that secrete a shell consisting of two parts called valves. Their fossils are common in the Pennsylvanian and Permian limestones of eastern Kansas.
Brachiopods commonly found in Kansas rocks

Brachiopods Commonly Found in Kansas Rocks

Brachiopods commonly found in Kansas rocks: Neospirifer, Meekella, Derbyia, Crurythyris, Phricodothyris, Nochonetes, and Hustedia.

Brachiopod fossil

Brachiopod Fossil

Exceptionally preserved brachiopod fossil (center, note delicate spines still attached to the valve) collected from the Coal Creek Limestone Member, Topeka Limestone, near Topeka.