Cidaris pratti

Hey, Tom!

I run across your amazing fossils occasionally as I am doing targeted topical searchers on the internet. Your Ocala cidaroid above is Cidaris pratti--not Phyllacanthus mortoni. They are very similar, one of the main macro-difference being the former, like yours, is considerably taller with more tubercles than the latter. Anyway, it's a very nice specimen. Heard you moved back to Texas--is that true? I suppose I missed my opportunities to collect with you in south Alabama. I just haven't had the expendable income--nor has the state been generous with out-of-state travel allowances--to be able to travel very far afield.

Hope all is well!

George Phillips

Museum of Natural Science

Jackson, Mississippi