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Is this a Crinoid?


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Found in New Buffalo, MI on shore of Lake Michigan. Fossil was loose and was in the sand. The area was a beach. If this is a crinoid what type is it? It looks like it's from the stem and was split in half.post-22111-0-77803400-1470077390_thumb.jpg

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Jurassic harmonica. j/k

Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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It looks like a bisected crinoid stem.

Not sure there is enough there to make a species level ID.

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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Very interesting Benandsam88, do you have a view from the end? all the best, Ben

Yes I do, I just took these. Sorry about the resolution, if you need me to retake one I can, I'm charging my camera battery. I linked you to it below cause I can't find an upload button on the reply options. The fossil has lots of little straight lines going across the short way, and one line going up in the middle.

https://twitter.com/brouxRBLX/status/760189742097006592

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Yes I do, I just took these. Sorry about the resolution, if you need me to retake one I can, I'm charging my camera battery. I linked you to it below cause I can't find an upload button on the reply options.

Go to the lower right of the reply box, and hit the "More Reply Options" button. It is right next to the "Post" button.

Some people don't like to leave the forum to see pictures, and some sites are blocked, when looking from work.

Always best to post them here. ;)

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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