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Possible Crinoid Piece? (Likely Rhomberifan)


Kane

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While doing some prep on some Neuville Fm material (U. Ordovician, Quebec), on the slab I was working I bumped into this. Roughly 5 mm wide. 

 

I am thinking crinoid bit, but not quite sure. It doesn't seem to match the main four found there, or possibly a component piece that baffles my crinoid-poor knowledge!

 

***EDIT: Looking over the faunal lists, the star-shaped plate makes it a good match for a rhombiferan.***

 

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My thanks! Finding even a tiny fragment of a rhombiferan in this particular material is quite cool (although they are far more common in other locations of the Trenton Gp).

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I agree it is a pectinirhomb of a Cheirocystites or similar rhombiferan.  Not a Pleurocystites though, the pattern of ridges is wrong.  Nice! :wub:

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Definitely a match!

And here is a complete Cheirocystites anatiformis (MPEP 389.4) in my friend Mario's museum, collected in the same formation:

 

 

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