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Crinoid fossils

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Field Notes

Description:

The stem pieces can look like beads; the body or calyx pieces are odd flattened shapes.

Habitat:

Limestone rock now, used to live in shallow tropical seas that covered what is now Indiana.

Notes:

In large blocks of Indiana Limestone protecting the shorline at Montrose Point, Chicago.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Eric Gyllenhaal
Read more about Indiana Limestone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Limestone
Eric Gyllenhaal
Read more about fossil crinoids: http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/crinoid.html
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PublishedApril 10, 2010

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