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Galena Formation, probably Prosser member

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Do not know what this is! Fascinating! To me it looks like a tentacled head with bumps facing the bottom of the picture, then a long skinny spine and then a bulbous tail.

 

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I've never seen anything like this before in the field or in the books for the Ordovician. Of course, I could be visualizing it wrong. Anyone know what this critter is???

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WOW, I've never found a complete Ordovician crinoid nor, Mike, a complete Cystoid! Either would be firsts for me!  :-D

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3 minutes ago, Bev said:

WOW, I've never found a complete Ordovician crinoid nor, Mike, a complete Cystoid! Either would be firsts for me!  :-D

Congratulations on the first!

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1 minute ago, ynot said:

Congratulations on the first!

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Not until we find out what it is.  :-D  Too many tentacles to be that kind of cystoid I think. Maybe it is a crinoid...

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So, indoor light but what a difference - darn... Now I'm thinking just some bryozoan...  :-(  What do you think?

 

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I brightened your picture. 

 

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I'm having a real hard time seeing any "tentacles" or anything tentacle like here.:headscratch:

Am I missing something? :blush:  (I have before.) 

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Ok, ...Got it.

 

So, the outdoor picture was out of focus. 

Definitely bryozoan, Bev. 

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42 minutes ago, Bev said:

So, indoor light but what a difference - darn... Now I'm thinking just some bryozoan...  :-(  What do you think?

 

 

It reminds me of the story of the blind men and the elephant.  So far we have had guesses of crinoid, cystoid, trilobite.

The lighting of the photos only impacts what we can see.  Now that we can all finally 'see', it is obviously a bryozoan. :P

 

 

 

 

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Thank you all so much! In hand it does not resemble a bryozoan but it is TINY. The added magnification of camera lens says it is bryozoan. But I have a rock full of trilobite parts I will post shortly.  :-)

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3 minutes ago, GeschWhat said:

Hey Bev..what is this?

 

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I'm guessing either a trilo cephalon or a broken brach. I'm not good enough to tell the difference.  :-(  It has the real distinctive upper right hand edge that screams trilo ceph to me, but I've been wrong before.

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