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There is no question in my mind that it’s a crinoid. I grew up in a town in Southern Indiana that was essentially a giant crinoid bed in the Cambrian. I had so many pieces of crinoid. I even had a “flower,” which were really hard to find. Sadly, I lost it.

Here’s a bunch of “stems”:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/327b6404-efa8-4c4a-96ef-f63da26855e1.png

Here’s a “flower”:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3c2b4771-6472-4996-b46a-2c3e50dca3ad.png

I put those words in quotes, because a crinoid is actually an animal, not a plant. Here’s a sea lily, one of its modern descendents.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c285ae37-51e8-407e-81fa-ca19937c562e.png

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