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jmfg222 said:
i know nothing about fossils but guessing these are flowers or at least a plant.
The details are obscure in the images, but I can see the plates that suggest it is a "sea lily." A sea lily is an animal - a crinoid - not a plant. Nice finds!
 

Yup, definitely crinoid cups or calices. They look awful similar to Eucalyptocrinites (one of the many species) from the Waldron Shale. Where were they found????
Chuck
 

I have collected Waldron Shale in Indiana many times and have countless examples of this fauna. This link shows some more examples from Indiana

http://www.weekstrilobites.com/waldronshalefossils.htm

The Waldron has awesome preservation and you really should take a second look at where you came up with those calices. There is a huge variety of fossils in the Waldron and you are definitely on the right track to come up with some trilobites as well as other crinoids. Nice stuff.
Chuck
 

Here is a Eucalyptocrinites that I had posted a while back.
 

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Here are a couple of Flexicalymene breviceps that I collected in the Waldron of IN and posted a while back.
 

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I need to find the waldron shale. Those are all very nice fossils.
 

Re: these are crinoids

Harry Pristis said:
Ya' gotta' love 'em! They are so strange. They are so fragile-looking, but here they are - durable remnants of an undersea garden.


Looks as if the water just drained away and there they lie,ummm lay.
Is that from your collection and a picture you took?
 

Re: these are crinoids

TnMountains said:
Harry Pristis said:
Ya' gotta' love 'em! They are so strange. They are so fragile-looking, but here they are - durable remnants of an undersea garden.

Looks as if the water just drained away and there they lie,ummm lay.
Is that from your collection and a picture you took?
Yes, I have a chunk of this matrix. Here's another image of the same surface:

crinoidcrawfordsville2.jpg
 

Are fossils like that found around any of the old coal strip pits ?
 

TnMountains said:
Are fossils like that found around any of the old coal strip pits ?

I don't think the conditions that produce coal deposits (swamps) would have any crinoids because they are more open water creatures.
 

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