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Description: | A Silurian fossil crinoid calyx plate from a Crotalocrinus rugosus. The plate is fairly well preserved but has many small fractures. The specimen has a pentagonal symmetry highlighted by ridges radiating from the centre, preserved in a fossiliferous lime mud matrix. This was collected from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation. CB 17/2/11
Original label on specimen (stamp paper, thin black margin) `Crotalocrinus Rugosus (a plate of) Wenlock'.
A fossil crinoid calyx plate from Crotalocrinus rugosus. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock - Homerian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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