Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
This is a fossilized crinoid that expanded into a geode. Found in Southern Indiana, near Heltonville, Indiana geodes are sedimentary, and the plant life that formed this one was a crinoid. Crinoid fossils are also found in Southern Indiana; this example of a fossilized crinoid geode is quite rare. americangeode.com for comments, questions, insight and information. Thank you.
This is a fossilized crinoid that expanded into a geode. Found in Southern Indiana, near Heltonville, Indiana geodes are sedimentary, and the plant life that formed this one was a crinoid. Crinoid fossils are also found in Southern Indiana; this example of a fossilized crinoid geode is quite rare. americangeode.com for comments, questions, insight and information. Thank you.










