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Crinoid Vs Blastoid


Jdeutsch

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A while back I posted some images of geodized fossils on the ID section

Indy posted this nice link http://www.relic-master.com/geodized_fossils.htm

There was a particular image in my posting where there were questions raised by the forum as to whether it was a crinoid or a blastoid. I did some searching on the web since this wasn't obvious to me, but my searching just raised more questions. So now I.m asking the group-

A) if one finds an isolated stem - how do you know if it is blastoid, crinoid or something else?

B) Next- with the geodized fossil heads, are there features to look for that might seperate out crinoid from blastoid?- I've attached a few examples

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Except in rare exceptions do blastiods get over 1.5" long, most in the Mississippian are 0.5 to 1" long (at least in KY).

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