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These are pieces of two plates from a sea urchin, probably Archaeocidaris sp. A spine (see the example in the Belden Formation fossils) was attached to the circular bump. Archaeocidaris was called Echinocrinus in some of the earlier literature. The small units on the scale are 1 mm.
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