Re: paleonet Mysterious microfossil

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It looks to me like a microcrinoid. I have found
similar structures in the Cenomanian -Turonian of
Texas.


Virginia Friedman
PhD student UCDavis

--- Bruno GRANIER <bruno-granier@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Dear All,
> A colleague of mine passed me these 3D drawings of
> ~100µm sized microfossils of uncertain affinity!
>
http://www-sdt.univ-brest.fr/~bgranier/geologie/paleontologie/odin.jpg
> It looks that all these tiny calcareous bodies
> (Maastrichtian in age) display a single small pore
> ... my colleague couldn't access a SEM, that's the
> reason why he sent me these drawings instead of
> photos.
> Do you have any suggestion? Did you already reported
> such specimen findings or do you know any earlier
> report?
> Regards,
> B. Granier
> 
> 
> 


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