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Please Help Me Id This Fosssil


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This fossil was found in a creek bed in southern Missouri. I don't know much about fossils, but usually I can use the web to identify them. No such luck in this case.

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I think you have an impression of a crinoid or cystoid calyx. The ornament corresponds to the raised ridges on the calyx of numerous such echinoderms. Unfortunately, I don't think enough is preserved to confidently identify the genus or species.

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That is an interesting piece,but I don`t recognize yet what can be. :zzzzscratchchin:

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echinoderm impression.

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Cool find! When I found a crinoid fragment a bit like this, I thought at first it was just the imprint of my boot tread!

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Found mine. Forum folks identified it for me as carabocrinus. post-11310-0-60889200-1427946950_thumb.jpg

Herb, so can you explain more about your echinoderm idea?

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It looks to be a cystoid calyx imprint,as FossilDAWG said,so it is an echinoderm,as Herb said.

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