Spring and summer 1995: Geologists from the Kentucky, Indiana,
and Illinois state geological surveys working on a project in
western Kentucky found several large blocks of sandstone
containing skeletal material. Further examination indicated that
the fossil was an embolomere amphibian from late Chesterian
(Mississippian) strata. The Kentucky Geological Survey is
coordinating research on the specimen, which has been
transferred temporarily to a vertebrate paleontologist who will
be preparing the fossil for the next year and a half. After
preparation and initial examination, a press conference will be
held at the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of
Kentucky. The specimen will eventually be housed in the Kentucky
Museum of Natural History.313-million-year-old insect fossil
found in eastern Kentucky November 1993: A scientific paper was
published on the first insect fossil found in Kentucky. The
insect wing, belonging to a spilapterid (Palaeodictyoptera:
extinct) insect, was found near Manchester, Ky.