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Hi friends and happy new year , can you help me with this , i went to jubaila city outside of Riyadh , the area is Kimmeridgian , it was a surface find , what could it be it looks like Crayfish leg ???

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16 minutes ago, drbush said:

what could it be it looks like Crayfish leg ???

Very cool .. like @grandpa said this is an echinoid spine. They evolved in all sorts of shapes and sizes. 

Image Credit: Wikipedia

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Archaeocidaris sp.

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Cheers,

Brett

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