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I am unsure if this is a fossil or not.


Nate c

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I found an unusual specimen today in a creek. It is embedded in limestone next to some quartz nodules. I did not have any tools on me so I could not get the specimen out of the lime stone and was unable to take it home. So I quickly took a picture before leaving, not thinking about scale, but i'd say it is about 4 inches in diameter. To me it (by it I mean the visible parts of the specimen) looks like a crinoid calyx. If anyone can tell me additional information about this specimen from just this blurry picture then please do so!

 

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I have added the picture however, the image is rather large as I am not very familiar with this sort of text editor. Just for feature reference, how do you shrink images ? Sorry that this rather irrelevant. 

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looks like a section of crinoid calyx, but too blurry to say much more

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  • 2 weeks later...

I’ve seen similar looking specimens that were somewhat eroded nodules of calcite, but this has me thinking calyx because of two places I think I see crinoid segments... wish it wasn’t so blurry!

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