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Lampterocrinus tennesseensis

scale in cms
CLASS - Crinoidea
ORDER - Diplobathrida
FAMILY - Lampterocrinidae
GENUS/SPECIES - Lampterocrinus tennesseensis
ROCK UNIT - Brownsport Formation
AGE - Silurian (425 million years old)
LOCALITY - d, Tennessee, USA
These specimens represent the highly ornamented cup (lower) portion of
crown that possesses a very large anal tube at the top. The plates making
up the cup were more sutured together than those comprising the anal tube,
so only the cup was preserved.
PRI 43601
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