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Anyone know their Ordovician sponges?

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I believe i found my first Ordovician sponge fossil while hunting road cuts. 

 

Can anyone confirm if this is an Astylospongia or something else? 

 

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~Charlie~

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14 minutes ago, Al Dente said:

It looks like a cyclocystoid. That's a much better find than a sponge in my opinion.

It does! You learn something new everyday. 

 

I thought it was something kinda rare, considering I've literally seen/found thousands of Ordovician fossils. 

 

Thank you, sir. 

~Charlie~

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK
->Get your Mosasaur print
->How to spot a fake Trilobite
->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG

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From Wisconsin: Cyclocystoides scammaphoris

 

figure from:

 

Smith, A.B., & Paul, C.R. (1982)

Revision of the class Cyclocystoidea (Echinodermata).

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 296:577-679

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Thanks everyone!

 

The three or four different trilobite species bits associated with it helps in it's presentation. 

~Charlie~

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK
->Get your Mosasaur print
->How to spot a fake Trilobite
->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG

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Excellent find! Have been wandering the Ordovician road cuts for years now and never saw one of those!!

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