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FS288 Eocene Echinoid Weisbordella

1.0 cm. Long x 0.8 cm. Wide x 0.4 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Echinodermata, Echinoidea, Clypeasteroida, Neolaganidae, Weisbordella, cubae

Description: Eocene sand dollar Weisbordella cubae (Weisbord) found on a spoil island from the dredging of the Cross-Florida Canal off Yankeetown, FL.

Age: Eocene Epoch

Location Found: United States, Florida, Spoil Islands, mouth of Withlacoochee River, by Yankeetown, FL, Ocala Limestone

Found by: Andy DeRouin

Custodian: fossilweb

Identified by: Ed DeRouin

References: Cenozoic Echinoids of Eastern United States, Cooke, U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 321, p. 53 and Plate 20.