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Delwin Glasner posted a new specimen. 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoDelwin Glasner has contributed specimen mFeM 59645 to myFOSSIL!
Delwin Glasner posted a new specimen. 4 years, 7 months ago
Delwin Glasner has contributed specimen mFeM 59645 to myFOSSIL!
Hi, @delwin-glasner! This is a very cool paleobotanical specimen. Would you be interested in making this research grade? If so, we could start by adding a few more pictures at different angles. Also, @mackenzie-smith might be able to help you narrow down the classification of this fossil a little more.
Yes, I will take some additional photos
I originally post this in “what is it” but no one was able to I.D. this”Tic Tac”
Thank you so much! It looks like MacKenzie has a better idea than I do.
Submitted additional photos today
Porocystis globularis is the specimen I know from there but this seems more elongated. Perhaps a different species or deformed during preservation?
Yes I have found some of those at the site but they were round and a little smaller that a golfball.
I’m gonna search around and see if I can get back to you. It is very tiny – perhaps it could be a fragment of an echinoid spine or a foram…
@lmccall might also be able to help us narrow down the identification!
Definitely not Porocystis. A site near Bandera has produced several small floating crinoids. This doesn’t look like any I have found from there but might be what it is. Does it have calcitic cleavage anywhere, or does it look more like limestone fill?
@delwin-glasner I’ve been looking at another algal body and it seems like they have all have intrusions. I agree with @lmccall because this specimen has protrusions like other echinoderms. Crabby part maybe too?
Yes my first thought was an urchin spine or seed.
Will change I.D. to Radiola
So sometimes there are plants and animals with the same genus name so is there an echinoderm called Radiola? Because Radiola is also a plant (monotypic genus) that grows in Europe in the family Linaceae and it’s not plant.
Looking at Cidaridae spines on the web at
https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Cidaridae
I would agree with it being an echinoderm spine, based on the size and shape and pattern of ornamentation. @jbauer, do you have any input?