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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2623802, member: 76194&quot;]OK, since it&#039;s not a cool dinosaur and no one bit, here is the answer I gave to another forum member about this fossil.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]576084[/ATTACH]</p><p>Species: Gogia Palmeri</p><p>Family: Cystoid (Extinct)</p><p>Middle Cambrian</p><p>505,000,000 years old</p><p><br /></p><p>That particular fossil is a gogia palmeri, which belonged to a class of echinoderms that is now extinct (modern Echinoderms include starfish, sponges, sand dollars, etc). This particular animal was a Cystoid, from which another better-known class of animals evolved, the crinoids (modern crinoids are the so-called sea-lilies or feather stars). However, unlike their descendants (the crinoids), cystoids are completely extinct.</p><p><br /></p><p>To give you an idea of age, around 505,000,000 years old. TO put that into perspective, dinosaurs came around for the first time 250,000,000 years ago. So if you were to go back to the time of the dinosaurs, the fossil I showed would have been 255,000,000 years old at the time the first dinosaur in the world took its first breath.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought it with my coin budget as I&#039;m not buying coins until I fix my mess with the collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Does anyone have an older fossil they&#039;d like to share?</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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