Looking for a fossil GURU

[Tn Dirt Digger]

A friend of mine found this.....I have seen plenty of "Indian Money" before...but none with the evenly spaced holes around the piece....Your help and info is appreciated...Thanks for looking!

[echostar61]

WOW, That is so Cool looking. I hope some one can ID it. It's very interesting for sure

Terri

[superduty]

It looks like the base of a crinoid stem where the roots come out.
Crinoid fossils trivia

[echostar61]

Originally Posted by superduty

It looks like the base of a crinoid stem where the roots come out.
Crinoid fossils trivia

Good Job SD. I figured you would know

Terri

[superduty]

I hope I'm right... I could be wrong..

[echostar61]

Hey George How big is it ?

And SD , I bet your right

Terri

[Tn Dirt Digger]

Hey SD...I looked at the web page and I can see where your coming from...but none of their photos looked like it?.....

[Tn Dirt Digger]

Originally Posted by echostar61

Hey George How big is it ?

And SD , I bet your right

Terri

Echo its about an inch long and about as big around as a quarter...

[echostar61]

It sure is an interesting find, the evenly spaced holes around it has me stumped . Did you find it near the last fossil find ? Thanks for your reply George

Terri

[superduty]

I was thinking in the center panel of the illustration near the bottom , the section called " Nodal Columnal" maybe??? That section looks like it has horizontal off shoots coming from the vertical shaft. example " 1G' of this illustration.. Ancient Life--21--Crinoids

One more link , scroll down to page #9....

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805214...21450249ws.pdf You have to remember there where perhaps 1000's or even 10,000's of different variations of this species more than likely many of which where either never recorded or recorded in such obscurity that I can find a exact example.....Good luck.