This Specimen has been sold.
1.3" Fossil Sea Cucumber (Achistrum) - Mazon Creek
This is a 1.3", fossil sea cucumber (Achistrum) from the Carbondale Formation near Essex, Illinois. It is preserved in an ironstone nodule.
Sea cucumbers are sea floor dwelling echinoderms with tube bodies, leathery skin and an endoskeleton.
Sea cucumbers are sea floor dwelling echinoderms with tube bodies, leathery skin and an endoskeleton.
SPECIES
Achistrum sp.
LOCATION
Essex, Illinois
FORMATION
Carbondale Formation
SIZE
1.3" sea cucumber, 2.7 x 1.6" nodule
CATEGORY
ITEM
#120937
We guarantee the authenticity of all of our specimens.