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Ian Forsythe posted a new specimen in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 1 month ago
5 years, 1 month ago5 years, 1 month agoIan Forsythe has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Nathan Newell posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 1 month ago
5 years, 1 month ago5 years, 1 month agoHere’s a close up of an interesting fossil I posted earlier this week. It’s a bed of crinoid segments, presumably from different individuals of different ages, considering the various sizes that are evident. Some of them are stacked too, with smaller segments overlapping larger ones. #fossil
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Sadie Mills posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 1 month ago
5 years, 1 month ago5 years, 1 month agoThis cute little fossil was just given to me by a family friend. No locality data, but it says “blastoid” on the box. Is that correct? #fossil
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@sadie-mills – definitely a blastoid. It’s a Pentremites species! It is Carboniferous in age and is North American. I can maybe narrow it down if I see the specimen in person.
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 2 months ago
5 years, 2 months ago5 years, 2 months agoPile of Pentremites! There are at least two different species in this pile maybe more. Pentremites is arguably the weirdest blastoid but also the most common. The tag on the box said Huntsville, Alabama.
Anyone love the weirder blastoids? My favorite is Cryptoschisma from the Devonian of Spain. #fossil
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Jack Kallmeyer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 5 years, 3 months ago
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Jack Kallmeyer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 5 years, 3 months ago
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Jack Kallmeyer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 5 years, 3 months ago
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 3 months ago
5 years, 3 months ago5 years, 3 months agoA classic example of Paleozoic crinoids: Eucalyptocrinus calyces (cups). Do you have a favorite crinoid? #fossil
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I have so many favorites. I really like the ones with strange or poorly understood life habits. Uintacrinus, with its bulb-shaped, stalkless cup. The log-living, 10 m stalked Scyphocrinites. All of the strange ones without good analogs for modern life-habits have always fascinated me.
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@alex-janevski – yes!! Those are great crinoids! The bizarre forms always spark the most curiosity!
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoCatalogue of the Blastoidea of the British Museum by Etheridge and Carpenter 1886. Original book and none of the plates have been cut open- in old books the plates are in large pages that extend out past the normal page constraints. This was a gift for my dissertation defense from my mentor, I was speechless!
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@jbauer Awesome! I love old paleontology books. The illustrations can be really amazing.
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@nathan-newell absolutely, they are truly works of art. It’s stunning how skilled past naturalists were!
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoHeart urchins from my collection. These, unfortunately, don’t have any associated location, rock, or time information. I do love their shape and I have a good size range! #fossil
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Mary Jane Hughes posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoEchinoid found in the FOSSIL Project office! #fossil
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoLarge reprints of Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Cystoidea’ and ‘Blastoidea’ plates (multiple specimens or images on a single large figure). For one of my qualifier exam questions I had to describe each species on the blastoid plate and discuss issues with past interpretations of shape and form! #fossil
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Just now seeing the myFOSSIL card for scale! 😂
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Hah!! @sadie-mills – it felt weird not including it!
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Alexandre Toux posted a new specimen in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoAlexandre Toux has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoHere is a graphic to help with echinoid photography and (some) morphology. This is an irregular echinoid, meaning they have bilateral symmetry rather than pentameral. For photography, one petal (ambulacrum) is pointing up- it should always be III (3). The anus (periproct) should be pointing down. Check it out @sadie-mills! #fossil
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 5 years, 8 months ago
5 years, 8 months ago5 years, 8 months agoHundreds of sea potatoes cover Penzance Beach
Click the link to learn about a mass stranding of heart urchins in the UK. These urchins are quite cool – they burrow in the sea floor and often look furry when they have all of their spines attached.
Here is a another article that shows images with their spines attached: ‘Funny’ sea objects…[Read more]
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Looks a lot like my field area near Antofagasta, Chile with Pseudotoxaster wayensis (a spatangoid) covering the ground like gravel.
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@ryan-roney cool!!! Do you have any images from the field? Are spatangoid tests usually colorful (while alive or recently dead)? I never really thought about it but regular echinoids are so vibrant…
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Spatangoids are not as colorful as their epifaunal relatives, but there can be pink hues and color patterns.
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I’ll load some photos from the field a little later
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Awesome! Thanks, Ryan!
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Sam Ocon posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 5 years, 10 months ago
5 years, 10 months ago5 years, 10 months agoHey! These are both really cool finds –
These crinoid fossils found in Western Australia are changing our conception of their decline –
This starfish is the first cretaceous starfish found in…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 6 years, 8 months ago
6 years, 8 months ago6 years, 8 months agoAdded a blastoid to my digital fossil collection: click here for the images. This is a less common blastoid called Placoblastus. There are a few other types of these ‘blimp’ like blastoids, collectively called nucleocrinids. Very cool creatures because of the sizes of their body plates. Unlike most blastoids that have really big radial plates…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 7 years, 6 months ago
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 7 years, 6 months ago
7 years, 6 months ago7 years, 6 months agoHi, all! I’m a graduate student working on blastoids. I’m going to try to upload some images of fossils I’ve found over the past few years with a focus on blastozoan echinoderms. I’ve put up my first fossil, Pentremites tulipaformis! Quite the strange beauty, with odd spine/secondary accretion/spike at the distal end of each ambulacra. It…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata 8 years, 2 months ago
8 years, 2 months ago8 years, 2 months ago@lmccall, I think you would find this group very interesting!
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