Penn Dixie Fossils- Table of Contents
Penn Dixie Fossils - Echinoderms
Pelmatozoan columnals, 50 mm in lenght, collected by Brandon Bialy
Pelmatozoan holdfast, 3.4 cm across, collected from top of the Tichenor Limestone
by Jerry Bastedo
A crinoid calyx found by Chris Cuviello at Penn Dixie. The single image includes
both sides of the 2.0 cm wide specimen.
This specimen was found in the Windom Shale. The photo on the left has been
over grown with a coral (per Gordon Baird) with the stem protruding. The view
on the right is the inside of the calyx.
Photo by Richard Spencer.
An echinoderm holdfast that was found with two other holdfasts on a rugose coral
that weathered out of the Lower Windom Shale at the Penn Dixie Site. This holdfast
may have supported a blastoid or crinoid above the sea floor bottom.
The specimen is approximately 0.4 cm across and was collected in August 2006 by Jerry
Bastedo.
Photo by Richard Spencer.
