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Crinoidal vuggy chert (chertified crinoidal limestone) from the Carboniferous of Ukraine.

This visually intriguing rock is vuggy fossiliferous chert with partial crinoid stems. Crinoids are marine, sessile, benthic, filter-feeding, stalked echinoderms (basically a starfish on a stick). The stem, or stalk, of a crinoid is the most commonly found part in the fossil record. The stem consisted of stacked columnals composed of calcite (CaCO3 - calcium carbonate). The crinoid stems seen here were originally in fossiliferous limestone that has been chertified. The rock is now composed of cryptocrystalline quartz. The calcitic crinoid stems have dissolved away, leaving molds.

Stratigraphy: undetermined.

Age: Carboniferous (possibly Tournaisian to lower Visean - Lower Mississippian to lower Middle Mississippian).

Locality: limestone quarry on the western side OR on just south of the town of Komsomolske (Komsomolskiy/Komsomolsky/Komsomolskoe), southeastern Ukraine.

Many fossils of shelly organisms (e.g., bivalves, gastropods, brachiopods, cephalopods) have had the original hard parts dissolved away. In such cases of dissolution, the fossil itself is an impression of the outside of the shell (external mold) or an impression of the inside of the shell (internal mold).
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Author James St. John

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