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Description: | Specimen of a fossil echinoid (sea urchin), unidentified, collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary age.
This flattened sea urchin lived on a sandy sea floor. It has a thick test (skeleton), which shows that it lived in a high-energy (rough water) environment. Living Clypeasters are found in coastal areas below the low tide mark. In life, the test was covered with skin and spines that it used to help it burrow. It fed by eating sand and extracting tiny food particles out of it.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Echinodermata Invertebrata Echinoidea | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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