West Virginia Blastoid Identification

Blastoid is a realistic West Virginia fossil profile built around bud-shaped echinoderm with petal-like ambulacra preserved in limestone. In this state, success usually comes from learning roadcuts through limestone and shale, coal spoils, and stream gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.

Key Traits

  • bud shape
  • five petaloid grooves
  • small attachment point
  • Check roadcuts through limestone and shale, coal spoils, and stream gravels

Era

Mississippian

Type

echinoderm

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