Wheeler Shale Doodad

[Wrangellian]

Here's a piece I bought a while ago - Was told the horn-shaped thing is a carpoid and the red branching things were a type of sponge. Can anyone confirm or deny, or add info? thanks!

(Pics took in a hurry, now it occurs to me I might need a magnified view... stay tuned)

[crinus]

Here's a piece I bought a while ago - Was told the horn-shaped thing is a carpoid and the red branching things were a type of sponge. Can anyone confirm or deny, or add info? thanks!

(Pics took in a hurry, now it occurs to me I might need a magnified view... stay tuned)

The specimen on the left is a carpoid. http://www.crinus.info/echinoderm/data/cast.htm

The red thing is possibly a sponge. I don't see much detail but have seen specimens that look similar.

crinus

[Missourian]

Have you tried to see any spicules under a loupe or microscope?

[Wrangellian]

Thanks both..

I can't see anything that might indicate spicules under the loup. Might they be small enough that I can't see them without a microscope, or does the grain size limit that sort of detail? It looks like hardly anything more than a stain.