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Found this in a wet creek bed near the Wabash River in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Tippecanoe county mostly hosts crinoids, but I wondered if this hash plate also held a tooth. Many thanks in advance!

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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Welcome to the Forum. :) 

Looks more like a crinoid spine, to me.  

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Welcome from Austin, Tx.  I agree with crinoid spine.  Nice complement to the crinoid stem next to it.  Good find.

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BobWill Regular Member

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...or maybe what kept the poop-eating snails off! I believe it's an anal tube spine rather than one from the cup.

 

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16 hours ago, Bob Saunders said:

A spine, what protected them from being eaten by fish.

Is that Ordovician or Silurian?  No fish in the Ordovician and jawless ones in the Silurian.

 

Cheers,

RIch

 

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