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1.5" Starfish (Petraster?) & Edrioasteroid (Spinadiscus)- Ordovician
This is a 1.5" wide, Ordovician aged starfish of the genus Petraster that's associated with two Edrioasteroid fossils of the species Spinadiscus lefebvrei. It comes from the Tioririne Formation near Blekus, Morocco.
Edrioasteroids are an extinct class of echinoderms that lived from the Ediacaran until the Permian, about 300 million years ago. The living animal would have resembled a pentamerously symmetrical disc or cushion.
Edrioasteroids are an extinct class of echinoderms that lived from the Ediacaran until the Permian, about 300 million years ago. The living animal would have resembled a pentamerously symmetrical disc or cushion.
SPECIES
Petraster? & Spinadiscus lefebvrei
LOCATION
El Kaid Rami, Morocco
FORMATION
Upper Tioririne Formation
SIZE
Brittlestar 1.5", Matrix 4x3.4"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#100080
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