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Name:
Pleurocystites squamosus
Age: Ordovician
Formation: Bobcaygeon Formation
Location: Ontario, Canada
Size: Cystoid is not quite 3 inches along curve
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This is an excellent fossil cystoid. It is a large Pleurocystites squamosus from the Ordovician of Ontario, Canada. This distinct cystoid is woderfully preserved and retains its classic sperm-like shape. A long, uniserial arm is intact, which is unusual. The tapering stem is quite long and still tightly attached, which is also rare. The cream-colored fossil contrasts nicely with the grey matrix. The cystoid is beautifully centered on the large, rectangular plate of limestone that also contains some other fossils. This is a very fine example of this unusual Ordovician echinoderm.
This fossil was collected and obtained legally, and is also being sold legally.
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