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FS293 Small Eocene Sand Dollar

1.0 cm. Long x 0.9 cm. Wide x 0.3 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Echinodermata, Echinoidea, Clypeasteroida, Laganidae, Laganum, ocalanum

Description: The Eocene sand dollar Laganum ocalanum (Cooke) found on a spoil island built from dredging a channel out of the Withlacoochee River near 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. 51 and Plate 20.