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Beat Up Crinoid Crown???


minnbuckeye

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I picked up this crinoid filled matrix to put in the children's fossil pit. But as I examined it, I am "imagining" a crinoid crown, albeit, disarticulated.  Any thoughts? Am I seeing things? Wishful thinking?

 

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Mike

 

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5 hours ago, erose said:

Pretty dang scrappy, but yes, I would say it looks rather crownish...

 

Yes. Never had seen a calyx to those abundant

 big stem sections. I don't expect it to be this small of a calyx. 

14 hours ago, minnbuckeye said:

I picked up this crinoid filled matrix to put in the children's fossil pit. But as I examined it, I am "imagining" a crinoid crown, albeit, disarticulated.  Any thoughts? Am I seeing things? Wishful thinking?

 

Thanks 

Mike

 

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You would had given some of us an heart attack if you had let kids beat it up - Ordovician to Devonian USA crinoid calyx is as rare as finding a big cephalopod. 

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14 hours ago, minnbuckeye said:

I picked up this crinoid filled matrix to put in the children's fossil pit. But as I examined it, I am "imagining" a crinoid crown, albeit, disarticulated.  Any thoughts? Am I seeing things? Wishful thinking?

 

Thanks 

Mike

 

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Why dont you ask Tidgy for id? I'm 100% noob as to crinoid calyx being so rare.  Someday in the future I will try to search for a documentary on how to identify crinoid families by their stem portions if that's even possible. 

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