Plate With 10 Blastoids & Unidentified Edrioasteroid - Illinois

This is a really cool association of 10 blastoid (Pentremites) fossils, many brachiopods and an unidentified Edrioasteroid. It was collected from the Ridenhower Formation near Floraville, Illinois.

Blastoids are an extinct type of filter feeding, stemmed echinoderm that resembles a small hickory nut. They thrived during the Mississippian period before going extinct during the great Permian extinction. While not as diverse as their crinoid relatives, they were equally as common in rocks around the world. Blastoids were protected by a set of interlocking plates that formed the main body, or theca. In life, a typical blastoid's theca was attached to a stalk or column made up of stacked disc-shaped plates.
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SPECIES
Pentremites & Unidentified Edrioasteroid
LOCATION
Floraville, Illinois
FORMATION
Ridenhower Formation
SIZE
Rock 6.5x6.2", Edrioasteroid 1.5"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#68099
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