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Monday, December 25, 2017

Merry Fossil Christmas 2017

This year's Christmas greeting image was created with specimens from two locations.

The star (thin section of crinoid stem), trunk (eroded crinoid stem), circular ornament (button coral) and drop shaped ornament (anchor crinoid stem) were obtained from the Devonian Period Jeffersonville/Beechwood/Speed Limestone of Clark County, Indiana USA. The anchor crinoid is a Ancyrocrinus sp. found in the Beechwood Limestone and the button coral is a Hadrophyllum orbignyi from the Speed Limestone.

The tree portion is an Atlantic Auger gastropod shell (Terebra dislocata) and the small fragment ornament is a broken piece of a sea urchin. Both of these specimens were found at Folly Beach near Charleston South Carolina, USA.


To visitors of this blog, I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope the new year brings you new finds in search for fossils in the world around you.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Ancyrocrinus Crinoid Fossil Anchor


This crinoid had any interesting angle on existing in the Devonian Period sea. At its base was a pod with spikes that allowed it to anchor on the seabed. These pictures show an Ancyrocrinus sp. crinoid fossil. It was found in the Beechwood Limestone of Clark County, Indiana USA.