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Description: | Specimen of a fossil echinoid (sea urchin), Micraster sp., collected from the Chalk Formation (?) of Late Cretaceous age.
Micraster is a heart-shaped sea urchin. Fossils of this type have been described as Fairy loaves, because they were shaped a bit like loaves of bread. Keeping them in the house was thought to prevent the family from going short of bread. In parts of Southern England, fossil sea urchins were thought to prevent milk going sour, and were sometimes kept in dairies for this reason.
It is from the Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Echinodermata Invertebrata Echinoidea | Temporal: | Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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