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Description: | This fossil shows a fragment of the test or skeleton of a globe-shaped sea urchin. The skeletons often break up after sea urchins dies. The individual plates that make up the test can be clearly seen in this example. One has a large boss (knob) where a spine would have been attached when the sea urchin was alive. The sea uchin lived on the surface of the sea floor. It was carnivorous (meat eating) and fed on other animals that lived there. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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