Dry Dredgers Field Trip
October 25, 2003
Southeast Indiana

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Some Fossils Found That Day: Crinoids and Corals

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the pictures of crinoids found that day. There were lots of crinoid stems found.
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I saw someone had found a nice Cincinnaticrinus pentagonus calyx (below).
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Here's a really interesting and somewhat mysterious mass of crinoid arms. This may be a large number of calyxes bunched together, or one crinoid of a type I cannot identify. Jack? What's your analysis?
 
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Corals

There were also lots and lots of Horn Coral found. This one is a Grewingkia.
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I think the coral in the picture below is Streptelasma.
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This is a complete coral head of the colonial tabulate coral, Tetradium. It will be pretty nice once it is cleaned.
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This is a broken Tetradium coral (below)
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Next Page: Other Fossils and Minerals Found That Day

October 2003 Field Trip
Table of Contents

Page 1: Introduction and the Search for Trilobites
Page 2: Crinoid Hunting
Page 3: Finding Brachiopods
Page 4: After Collecting
Page 5: Some Fossils Found That Day: Trilobites
Page 6: Some Fossils Found That Day: Crinoids and Corals
Page 7: Other Fossils and Minerals Found That Day


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