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Early Carboniferous Seas

As far as I can remember, the first fossil I ever found was a Lower Carboniferous Lithostrotion coral in a drystone wall in the Yorkshire Dales.
Rhodocrinites kirbeyi with Platycrinites stem and root system. LeGrand, Iowa Beautiful Agariocrinus americanus with commensal Onychaster flexilis. Lower Mississippian Osagean Stage. Crawfordsville, Indiana Platycrinites saffordi 95 mm long with parasitic 25 mm Platyceras gastropod. Lower Mississippian. Crawfordsville, Indiana. Gilbertsocrinus calyx with parasitic Platyceras on its tegmen (55 mm specimen), Edwardsville Formation, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Lepidocidaris squamosa Meek & Worthen 1873 with Taxocrinus sp, Lower Carboniferous, Warsaw Formation, Adams County, Illinois Macrocrinus mundulus (3 individuals to 18 cm) with Histocrinus coreyi, Halysiocrinus and ophiuroid (Aganaster). Crawfordsville. USA Pentremites godoni colour pattern.jpg USA Pentremites welleri.jpg
Metablastus blastoid, 11 cm along curve, Edwardsville Formation, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Metablastus blastoid, 11 cm along curve, detail, Edwardsville Formation, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Pholidocidaris irregularis, 11.5 cm across,  Edwardsville formation, near Crawfordsville, Indiana. USA Indiana Onychaster flexilis 2.jpg
Salticodiscus milleri (Sharman & Newton), edrioasteroids to 12 mm in a large group of individuals, Penruddock, Penrith, Cumbria Salticodiscus milleri (Sharman & Newton), edrioasteroids to 12 mm in a large group of individuals, Penruddock, Penrith, Cumbria Salticodiscus milleri (Sharman & Newton), edrioasteroids to 12 mm in a large group of individuals, Penruddock, Penrith, Cumbria Salticodiscus milleri (Sharman & Newton), edrioasteroids to 12 mm in a large group of individuals, Penruddock, Penrith, Cumbria
Ameropiltonia lauradanae, 15 mm, Mississippian, Chouteau Formation. Saline County, Missouri, USA. Cyclus radialis (Phillips, 1836), Castleton, Derbyshire UK Lower Carb  Muensteroceras UK Lower Carb goniatite
UK Lower Carb Beyrichoceras  UK Lower Carb Straparollus UK Lower Carb Posidoniella vetusta  UK Lower Carb Spirifer striatus 49mm.
UK Lower Carb Spiriferid English Mississippian fauna Platycrinites laevis, with fenestellid bryozoans, largest individual 9 cm, Tournaisian, Hook Head, Wexford, Ireland