Crinoid Dorsal Cups

Late Pennsylvanian (Shawnee Group of the Virgilian Stage)

Top and bottom images--Both sides of the same six crinoid dorsal cups. All--except specimens in top row-far left (Bathronocrinus) and middle (presently indeterminate)--are assignable to Delocrinus. From the upper Pennsylvanian Oread Limestone. Shawnee Group, Virgilian Stage--303 to 301 million years old.

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