crinoidal limestone
Identification code: 300011298
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Materials Facet
- Materials (hierarchy name)
- materials (substances)
- [materials by composition]
- inorganic material
- rock (inorganic material)
- sedimentary rock
- [sedimentary rock by composition]
- carbonate rock
- limestone
- [limestone by composition]
- [limestone by composition: aggregate type]
- fossiliferous limestone
Alternative term/s
- crinoid limestone
- limestone, crinoidal
Anotations
Scope note:
Fossiliferous limestone composed almost entirely of the fossil skeletal parts of crinoids, marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata; crinoidal limestone is particularly plentiful in North America.
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