22127 - Wide 10.51 Inch Eocrinoid (Ascocystites) Plate - Lower Ordovician Carboniferous Plants Micraster schroederi

Micraster schroederi

Mephiarges

In the same matrix you can also see a tooth of Platecarpus ptychodon (mosasaurus species) and what appears to be a rib fragment or the transverse process of another vertebra just below the neural spine of the main vertebra

Olivine shows a thin rim (Figs

Age range: 112

22127 - Wide 10.51 Inch Eocrinoid (Ascocystites) Plate - Lower Ordovician Carboniferous Plants Micraster schroederiAscocystites sp, Barrande 1887 Eocrinoidea Ascocystitida Parent taxon: Ascocystitida according to J. J. Sepkoski 2002 Sister taxa: Cambrocrinus, Eocystites, Eustypocystis, Nolichuckia, Pareocrinus Ecology: stationary intermediate level epifaunal suspension feeder Environments: coastal, transition zone lower shoreface Age range: 460. 9 to 457. 5 Ma Distribution: Ordovician of the Czech Republic, Morocco. Ascocystites sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology