Fossil shown appears to be some sort of species of
Glyptocrinus or
Glyptaster crinoid. Specimen was found in the Silurian Waldron Shale of Clark County, Indiana. Below are illustrations from Plate 13 (Figures 1-9)
Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History Eleventh Annual Report John Collett State Geologist 1881.
UPDATE: Thanks to Nathan for pointing out this fossil has a new name. Thanks to Kenny for finding names it might be. The Indiana State Museum has a picture in their collections database of a crinoid called
Dimeracrinites occidentalis (Glyptaster). It might be this or maybe a Melocrinus oblongus shown on this
web site or the
Dimerocrinites inornatus shown at this
web page.
Top row on plates are identified as
Glyptaster inornatus, Hall (1863,1879) and the second row is
Glyptocrinus carleyi, Hall (1863,1879). I wrote about a similar specimen back in January 2011. See posting
here.
Well Glyptocrinus is a Ordovician genera. Glyptaster is a star fish.
ReplyDeleteI have a pdf Silurian Crinoids I can send you in the next few days.