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Posted Aug 19, 2010, 05:16:17 am

.....about what this was.
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Aug 19, 2010, 11:28:12 am

The cavities appear to be the traces of crinoid columnals (stem sections) that were preserved, then dissolved away.

Imagine something like this:


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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Nov 01, 2010, 10:39:38 am

It could be pentacrinus (or others crinoids from Toarcian) but your find is very uncommon.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Nov 03, 2010, 12:01:30 pm

It is next to impossible to identify a crinoid from a stem, and to assign a time??? Well...

FWIW, stalked crinoids(other than comulatids) became extinct after the Paleozoic.
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