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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. Crinoids were also very familiar, especially from the hike up to Ingleborough.
Platycrinites granulatus Miller, with fenestellid bryozoans, largest individual 9 cm, Tournaisian, Hook Head, Wexford, Ireland Woodocrinus expansus crown (9 cm) with smaller Woodocrinus macrodactylus crown, Namurian, Richmond, Yorkshire 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.
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. Gilbertsocrinus calyx with parasitic Platyceras on its tegmen (55 mm specimen), Edwardsville Formation, Crawfordsville, Indiana Amphoracrinus gigas theca, Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Lancashire Platycrinites gigas theca, Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe
Codaster acutus blastoid from Settle, Yorkshire Codaster acutus blastoid from Settle, Yorkshire Orbitremites blastoid, Grassington, Yorkshire Pentremites godoni from Kentucky showing amazing colour pattern A very large (47 mm) blastoid, Pentremites maccalliei, Oakvale, West Virginia
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. 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 Salticodiscus Miller (Smith 1983) USA Indiana Onychaster flexilis 2.jpg
Cyclus radialis (Phillips, 1836), Castleton, Derbyshire Goniatite, Visean, Treak Cliff, Derbyshire UK Lower Carb goniatite Goniatites sp., Treak Cliff, Derbyshire A very large (7 cm) Beyrichoceras delicatum, Visean, Odin Mine, Treak Cliff, Derbyshire
Beyrichoceras rectangulatum, 25 mm, Visean, Treak Cliff, Castleton, Derbyshire Eumorphoceras, Cow Gill Syke, Malham, North Yorkshire Maccoyoceras maccoyi, 97 mm diameter nautiloid, Derbyshire Discitoceras sp with fluorite mineralisation. Odin Fissure, Treak Cliff, Castleton, Derbyshire UK Lower Carb Straparollus
UK Lower Carb Posidoniella vetusta Colour pattern preserved in the bivalve Streblopteria, Derbyshire Colour pattern preserved in the bivalve Streblopteria, Derbyshire UK Lower Carb Spirifer striatus 49mm. UK Lower Carb Spiriferid
Ameropiltonia lauradanae, 15 mm, Mississippian, Chouteau Formation. Saline County, Missouri, USA. Comptonaspis swallowi Mississippian, Chouteau Formation. Saline County, Missouri, USA Weberides mucronatus, Weardale Phillibole aprathensis, Upper Vision, Lower Carboniferous, Szczawno Formation, Wałbrzych, Poland Colonial coral
Brachiopods from near Settle.

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joseantonio10-Jul-2023 19:47
interesting gallery.V.
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