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Description: | Specimen of a fossil echinoid (sea urchin), Micraster coranguinum, collected from the Upper Chalk of Late Cretaceous age.
Micraster coranguinum was a heart-shaped sea urchin, that is now extinct. These fossils are sometimes known as fairy loaves, and they were possibly once thought of as loaves that belonged to fairies. Superstition suggests that if these fossils were kept in a house, the family living there would never go short of bread. When the sea urchin was alive, it was covered in spines.
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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