EntomoloJosh Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Hello, I collected this fossil from Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, UK, and I initially thought it was a sea-urchin type echinoderm (later identifying it as Nucleolites). However I also found what I knew what a crinoid stem, (Pentacrinites, I think? One of the star-shaped ones) and noticed that the end pattern looked a lot like my "sea-urchin" fossil. So I'm wondering if this fossil is the imprint of the end of a Pentacrinites crinoid stem? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Bingo! You got it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EntomoloJosh Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 1 hour ago, Rockwood said: Bingo! You got it. Woo! Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Isocrinid crinoid but not actually Pentacrinites which I think doesn't occur there. It's a good match for Hispidocrinus scalaris which is common in the Bay. (It used to be a Pentacrinites but that's been quite heavily revised.) 3 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EntomoloJosh Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 1 hour ago, TqB said: Isocrinid crinoid but not actually Pentacrinites which I think doesn't occur there. It's a good match for Hispidocrinus scalaris which is common in the Bay. (It used to be a Pentacrinites but that's been quite heavily revised.) Ah ok, thanks for letting me know! Here's an image of the other stem I found in case that helps at all (assuming these two specimens are the same species, although they weren't found together) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 18 minutes ago, EntomoloJosh said: Ah ok, thanks for letting me know! Here's an image of the other stem I found in case that helps at all (assuming these two specimens are the same species, although they weren't found together) I think those are the same. I'm not an expert but I have the excellent monograph by M. J. Simms (1989), "British Lower Jurassic Crinoids". 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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